Quotes About Empathy

What is it you really want?" Emily said. "Because if what you want is the big career, then you need to stick with that—and stop torturing the person who can't or won't follow. I speak from some experience on that.

I do not ask for your abosolution. I simply ask you to see that there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is get up, and go on with the life that is set in front of us, and try to so the good of which our hands are capable for the people who come in our way. That, at least, has been my path

Is it even our fight? As a mental test, I always try to reverse the gender. If some ninety million little boys were having their penises amputated, would the world have acted to prevent it by now? You bet.

I mean, not everything has to be about race, does

Janis Karpinski and a few of the instructors fasted all day along with their troops. "I wanted to show solidarity with them, but I also wanted to know exactly what their physical condition was. If

The good young man went out and I felt the great relief that simple kindness can work. It is a salve of the spirit, surely.

All women's lives are like that, I told myself, as I climbed the stair that led to the better-appointed rooms of the king's house. Which of them ever is mistress of her own destiny? Highborn or peasant, it makes no difference. At least David hadn't had her flogged or killed, as another king might have done. But now that I had heard the tale of her life in her own words, my heart ached for her.

asked how, if he never had spoken before to women outside his family, he was able to serve as spiritual counselor to the village women. My friend looked at me strangely. "They put their problems to him through their husbands, of course," he said. "But what if their husband is their problem?" That possibility hadn't crossed either man's mind.

How little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst. It is not as if, had you asked me, I would have claimed to fathom the thoughts and sentiments of two whose station in life was so far distant from mine. But in my own unexamined way I had believed that, working in their house and seeing to their needs, watching their comings and goings and their dealings with others, I had come to know them. How little, how very little, that knowledge had really amounted to.

He came to believe that horses lived with a world of fear, and when you grasped that, you had a clear idea how to be with

What did they want from him, these people? The girl's face was scrunched up like she had some kind of ague. Anyone think she was the one been sold away from her home and kin.

Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard.

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

He leaned into Darley's flank and felt the horse respond with gentle acceptance. Only horses were honest, in the end.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

You aren't stupid, Lillian,' said Uncle Victor, smiling and shaking his head, 'but sometimes the things you do are.

When Titus speaks, I can hear every word. For me, that's like when the optician slides home the right lens and all the e's and g's and o's and c's become perfectly clear again and it isn't a struggle, even to read the bottom-most line...His voice touches places inside me like someone moving through a house, flicking light switches...No peering into corners for what's been said.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

Zullen we even medelijden met onszelf hebben?' vroeg hij?

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

To understand everything makes one tolerant.

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.