Quotes About Empathy

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering and I responded… sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

smile first, then speak.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.

Being human means learning to see the common humanity in us all.

Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators... but they don't carry it the way the victims do.

Each of us bears a responsibility to reject hate, whatever its form, whatever its justification.

The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these.

Once you take care of people, people respect you.

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

Once become satisfied that a man loves you, and you will listen gladly to anything he has to say.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

It's nice to be important , but more important ot be nice.