Quotes About Empathy

You philosophers, however raised above your own bodies you may be, must really not forget we poor worldlings have bones to be broken.

Never judge someone by their relatives.

Reese, your books might not tell you this, so I will. Every heart has two parts, the part that pumps and the part that loves. If you're going to spend your life fixing broken hearts, then learn about both. You can't just fix one with no concern for the other.

forgive your enemies...it messes with their heads.

We all give meaning to each other's lives. As long as we live.

The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise. Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list.

Unfair suffering is never funny.

UNA DE LAS CARACTERÍSTICAS DE LA MADUREZ es la habilidad de estar en desacuerdo sin ser desagradable.

Epstein was one of thousands, if not millions, of people—undoubtedly mostly men—who've been suckered into thinking a machine was a potential date.

There will be plenty of backup and support, but she's still going to have to do heartbreaking things to people who probably don't understand why the pale woman with the bone-white violin and blood dripping from her fingertips is coming for them.

friend of mine who was turned down

Hate the sin, love the sinner: it's hard to stay pissed off at someone for doing something wrong if you know you'd have done exactly the same thing if you'd been standing in their shoes.)

To find yourself trapped in a body with the wrong gender must be hard to bear: How much harsher to discover, at age thirty, that you're the wrong species?

Everything that happens to me is designed to better prepare me for serving others, everything!

I hadn't realized that a break in a bone could be so exquisitely painful. I'd feel a greater tolerance for the the wounded after this.

I wasn't there, I wasn't there." The final failure, in the father's eyes. "Nor was God," Rutledge said, and sat with the grieving man for another quarter of an hour, until he was calmer.

If I read something somebody wrote 300 years ago, and it's me, what I'm going through now in my head, it sends chills down my spine, and I feel like that's what I want to be able to offer — that if I offer myself, there's a chance somebody else will feel connected.

The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties – these books exist, and they're tempting – but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind.

I wanted to do something that I don't know how to do, and offer you the experience of watching someone fumble, because I think maybe that's what art should offer. An opportunity to recognise our common humanity and vulnerability.

Scandinavians generally possess an intimate understanding of nature and because of this have a heightened appreciation of the intrinsic qualities of raw materials (especially local ones). The long and rich traditions of craftmanship and folk art that have existed in all five countries demonstrate not only the Scandinavian peoples' empathy for materials, but also their desire to infuse everyday objects with a natural, unpretentious beauty.

resentful. It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the

But if other people are irritable, we may divorce their behavior from their experiencing. We can't feel their experience; and so we judge their behavior. If we think, "She shouldn't be so arrogant," we only see her behavior and judge it, because we have no awareness of what is true for her

The minute we have even a passing thought of judging another person, the red light of practice should go on.

I would apologize to the devil if you treated him as you treat Nicola.