Quotes About Empathy

Make my happiness--I will make yours.

Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Just because I'm married to Doug doesn't mean I can't be here for you.

Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

when you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.

Love without conditions.

You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?

Most people can't stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them.

Before criticizing your wife's faults remember that they may have prevented her from getting a better husband.

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world.

I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.

Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave.

There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

I have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema.

A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance

The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital.

A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.

I think I kind of grew up with that a little bit and have great admiration for people who do [medical practice] for a living and who are real empaths. So I suppose I drew on - , from my mom a bit.