Quotes About Empathy

Peace is born of mutual understanding

Pity is a poison. -Kunti

I'm sorry about what you've had to live through," Dr. Walton said quietly. "But we're here to help you overcome your past. We're here to help you live." (260)

What do you think of Frankie, Norah?" she asked. "I think he's the greatest thing since canned peas." Flo roared with laughter. "Sorry, Janet," she choked, seeing her sister's hurt face. "But when you try to use expressions like that you sound so—

We want to hurt others but don't want to be hurt in return

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

Slavery is an element of the human heart...to our ruin.

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.

Look, don't kill that fly! It is making a prayer to you By rubbing its hands and feet

We filled in the space but we were never chosen it did hurt but at least we helped them feel okay.We learnt to give love without any expectation it doesn't hurt that way.

You don't need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect yourself. I don't ever again want to return to such a desert of mirrors.

You see only with your heart, because your eyes miss what matters.

Last night I got up to pin a star under my top bunk. It stands for Matthew, who's a planet all to himself. In order to get to know that planet you have to do away with rules and prejudices and language, and throw yourself at it without being frightened of traveling through space.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

EDUCATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT WITH IMMENSE POWER TO TRANSFORM

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.

The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.

There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than "Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.

Even if your eyes can no longer see, your eyes can no longer hear, your body can no longer move, your lips no longer able to speak, I shall stay by your side. I want to be with you (from Sleeping Bunny).

A thick skin is a gift from God.

Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.

But man should abstain from judging his innocently cruel fellow creatures, for even if nature sometimes "shrieks against his creed", what pain does he himself not inflict upon the living creatures that he hunts for pleasure and not for food?

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.