Quotes About Empathy

He was a sensitive man and many people had caused him anguish.

Giving a brief sermon, the Abbess once said, 'A hot furnace does not need to be heated. A loving heart does not need to be loved. Being loving is more important than being loved.

You never cared enough to be Black

home is where the hated is

When I hear about people murdering, I wonder, What has to go through your brain to say, I don't want him breathing anymore? What makes you get that angry? How can you take someone's breath away? That just blows my mind.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

I discover that there are other minds in understanding what other people say and do.

Certainly there are some things which I can find out about you only, or best, through being told of them by you. The oculist has to ask his client what letters he sees with his right and left eyes and how clearly he sees them; the doctor has to ask the sufferer where the pain is and what sort of a pain it is; and the psychoanalyst has to ask his patient about his dreams and daydreams.

hi sadaa sukham.' It means that one cannot have happiness alone.

We can't heal our broken system by sitting in judgment. Within each of us lies the seeds of intolerance and hate. If we simply declare others wrong and ourselves right, we deepen the divide.

Well it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-

nice to her. It had cost her quite a lot to push the door open. But

A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.

My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?' He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you. But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.' 'Why?' 'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.

It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase?

To look into the eye of a horse is to see a reflection of yourself that you might've forgotten. No grief was big enough not to be washed clean in your horse's eye.

There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy.

wherever you sit, in whatever blend of familiar and strange, it always pays to stop and ask yourself a simple question that the bankers on the Riviera were not asking: If I was to arrive in this culture, as a total stranger, or as a Martian or child, what might I see?

At times, she feels discomfort over matters she knows nothing about, and Magsalin hears rising up in her that quaver that readers have, as if the artist should be holding her hand as she is walked through the story. But she rides the wave, she checks herself. A reader does not need to know everything