Quotes About Empathy

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.

The same heart beats in every human breast.

When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.

The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same.

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who has stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.

We are made kind by being kind.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.