Quotes About Empathy

The mediator between head and hands must be the heart!

This book is not of today or of the future. It tells of no place. It serves no cause, party or class. It has a moral which grows on the pillar of understanding: "The mediator between brain and muscle must be the Heart." —T. vH.

That Brain and Hands no longer understand each other will one day destroy the New Tower of Babel. "Brain and Hands need a mediator. The Mediator between Brain and Hands must be the Heart. . . .

When someone is going through a storm, your silent presence is more powerful than a million empty words.

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

My maternal grandmother was not a philosopher, and she used to say that "words have no bones, but they can break bones." She knew what we all know: a word can cause more pain, more damage than the sharpest knife. As far as she was concerned, saying something and doing something were exactly the same.

Is the need to love greater than the need to hate?

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

The decay of giving is today matched by a hardness towards receiving.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.

Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.

There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.

All these nervous people, from the unemployed to the public figure liable at any moment to incur the wrath of those whose investment he represents, believe that only by empathy, assiduity, serviceability, arts and dodges, by tradesmen's qualities, can they ingratiate themselves with the executive they imagine omnipresent, and soon there is no relationship that is not seen as a 'connection', no impulse not first censored as to whether it deviates from the acceptable.

Often they win sympathy by a certain good-naturedness, a kindly involvement in other people's lives: selflessness as speculation.

Do not dismiss what you do not understand

CATHERINE: I can't write from Diana's point of view. MARY: Of course you can. You're a writer; you can write anything. Just find your inner Diana. CATHERINE: I don't have an inner Diana. DIANA: Ha! You wish. Everyone has an inner Diana.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

We shall listen, not lecture learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Only a man with a heart of stone could read of the death of Little Nell without laughing.' Oscar Wilde

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read "Dora Thorne," or had a great deal in the past. It seemed only fair to her, but she supposed that people thought it very fine. Now this clear- eyed, fine-headed youth, who looked something like a student to her, made fun of it. It was poor to him, not worth reading. She looked down, and for the first time felt the pain of not understanding.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.