Quotes About Empathy

Truly Christian conduct is not predicated on whether I have the right to do something, but whether my conduct is helpful to those about me.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

It's not what happens to people on the page; it's about what happens to a reader in his heart and mind.

Era a sensação que eu tinha - era o que sentia. Quando eu tinha seis anos, eu tinha a sensação de que eu era aquele que tinha que observar as coisas para as pessoas, que tinha que ver as coisas para as pessoas, que se eu não fizesse isso, então elas não seriam vistas.

manual of virtuous character traits that describes qualities to nurture in ourselves and to seek in our friends and lovers. At the top of the list would be kindness, a willingness to give of oneself to another. This most desirable of virtues governs all the others, including a capacity for empathy and love. Like other forms of art, we may find it hard to define, but when we are in its presence, we feel it.

Finally, if the person I'm talking to appears wedded determinedly to the past and unwilling to contemplate a better future, I grow impatient. It is misplaced kindness to offer only sympathy, even where it is clearly justified. It is hope that I'm really selling. If, after extended effort, I cannot persuade someone to buy, I am wasting both our time by continuing.

Teasing is a disguised form of shaming.

Compassionate emptiness. To me that meant a state of nonjudgmental receiving.

Happiness often makes us rather cruel.

Aukl?jimo paslaptis - ne tai, k? t?vai daro, o tai, k? jie reiškia savo vaikui.

Tudo o que me ocorria era que, por mais intimidade que tenhamos com alguém, há limites, barreiras entre nós que não podemos mesmo ultrapassar, coisas que nos tocam tão fundo que não podem ser partilhadas com mais ninguém. Talvez seja o que não podemos partilhar com os outros o que verdadeiramente nos define.

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!—

Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter.

Anyone can be an angel.

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.

Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left.

Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

If there is a just God, how humanity would writhe in its attempt to justify its treatment of animals.

No humane being... will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and malice, "human" might be the greater insult.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals.