Quotes About Empathy

If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them.

Our grief is not a cry for war.

for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.

Love is wanting what's best for the other person. Romance is wanting the other person.

if you've experienced discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognize it in another. Also

She found value in conflict, no matter what. "The purpose of ass-kicking is not that your ass gets kicked at the right time or for the right reason," she often explained. "It's to keep your ass sensitive.

There are rock-bottom subjects for men as well as women. If there is one that men want to talk about most, it's how much they missed having nurturing fathers, or any man in their lives who cared.

Maybe U.S. policy makers should talk to taxi drivers.

if you've experience discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognise it in another.

You know the hospital shows on television?" this woman asks. "When someone's heart stops and has to be restarted with electric paddles? That's what you and Margaret did for us. Please tell her daughter our hearts have been going ever since.

Alienation is when your country is at war, and you want the other side to win.

Since studies show that low self-esteem correlates with both prejudice and violence – that people who have a negative view of themselves also tend to view other people and the world negatively – representatives were interested in introducing self-esteem programs in schools.

We are not put on this earth to see through one another. We are put on this earth to see one another through.

that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

You are not put on this earth to see through people. You are put on this earth to see people through.

We can, as Martha Nussbaum (2010) suggests, benefit from the enlarged and varied imagination that literature, films, and other cultural products afford us to start to occupy different positionings than we usually occupy.

But what doesn't die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.

But Chu Ju," Han Na said to me, and took my hand in hers, "do not think that the land is payment for caring for me. There can be no payment for that. Where there was your love, there is only my love.

You are as good-hearted as I believed," the woman said, "but you are foolish as well to take such a thing on yourself. Yet what kindhearted person does not have some foolishness about him.

Be good, at least to yourself.

Don 't put mediocrity, insensitivity and tradition before sound reason and compassion.

Everyone is my friend, everyone is my foe.

The surest way to make the world a better place for everyone is making everyone better for the world.

We don't need a better world, we need a better society.