Quotes About Empathy

Life was terrible. It was as though they could understand, as though they could read in one another's eyes, that the power which had ground them into the mud would continue – even after the war – to oppress both conquered and conquerors.

Love disarms our emotional defenses; it makes us vulnerable to the other...in suspending our emotional defenses, love exposes our sympathy to the needs of the other.

The body needs food, but the mind needs people

Ignorance of ourselves is another reason for forgiving others. Unfortunately it is ourselves we know least; our neighbor's sins, weaknesses, and failures we know a thousand times better than our own. Criticism of others may be bad, but it is want of self-criticism which is worse.

One day a woman went to the saintly Father John Vianney, the Curé of Ars, in France, and said, "My husband has not been to the sacraments or to Mass for years. He has been unfaithful, wicked, and unjust. He has just fallen from a bridge and was drowned —a double death of body and soul." The Curé answered, "Madam, there is a short distance between the bridge and the water, and it is that distance which forbids you to judge.

Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco. Unglück lehrte mich, den Unglücklichen zu helfen.

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

I'm serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

The clever globe-trotting fox learns many things about the world, the local burrowing hedgehog only one: the essential truth that people are people, and learning how to understand and serve them begins at home with those one sees and speaks with face to face.

Bun?tatea uman? poate fi g?sit? în orice grup, chiar È™i în cele pe care e uÈ™or s? le condamni în întregul lor.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

La locomotora sonó con un aire misterioso, como un lamento de compasión por el cargamento destinado a la desgracia.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes

there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.