Quotes About Empathy

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields.

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

The more he approached the people and perceived their anger-filled eyes and the dark, tortured fierceness of their expressions, the more his heart stirred, the more his bowels flooded with deep sympathy and love. These are the people, he reflected. They are all brothers, every one of them, but they do not know it—and that is why they suffer. If they knew it, what celebrations there would be, what hugging and kissing, what happiness!

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.

Good god how much I have suffered, but serenely, because I understood that what I endured was nothing, just a caress compared to the world's boundless misfortune.

At such times [drunk] all the doors of a woman's being are opened. The sentinels relax and a kind word is as powerful as gold or love.

What is love? It's not empathy, nor kindness. Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the one who empathizes. Kindness takes two, the one who gives and the one who takes. But love takes just one. The two get together into one. They don't separate. The I and the you disappear. I LOVE MEANS I DISAPPEAR..

I am not going to kill sin by killing the sinners; I am not going to wage war against evildoers and infidels. I shall preach love, and I shall love; I shall preach concord, and shall practice brotherly love toward everyone in the world.

You should also know that a true woman is more pleased by the pleasure she gives to a man than by the pleasure she takes from him.

He has given a warm, beloved, living body to all the abstract ideas which were shivering inside me. When he is not there, I start shivering again.

Ascult?, b?iete. Pe Dumnezeu nu pot s?-l încap? cele nou? colÅ£uri ale cerului ÅŸi nici cele ÅŸapte ale p?mântului; îl încape îns? inima omului. ?i d-aia, È›ine minte, Zorbas, ai binecuvântarea mea, ai grij? s? nu r?neÈ™ti niciodat? inima omului!

Devenise ceva obisnuit, facea acest lucru in fiecare zi, ba chiar de mai multe ori pe zi, aducand trupul si sangele lui Hristos, ajutandu-i pe oameni sa dea fata cu moartea. Mureau impacati, dar parintele Iannaros nu uita vaietele, cuvintele lor de pe urma, lumina ochilor care se stingea, si nu putea sa se impace; mortii nu mai conteneau sa moara in sufletul lui.

Each man acquires the stature of the enemy with whom he wrestles.

La única forma de salvarse uno mismo es luchar para salvar a los otros…». Adelante, pues, maestro predicador… ¡Vamos!

Nikos Kazantzakis

As far as I can see, your lordship's never been hungry, never killed, never stolen. what ever can you know of the world? You've got an innocent's brain and you skin's never felt the sun

La única forma de salvarse uno mismo es luchar para salvar a los otros…».

I have instant compassion for men as equal human beings. Equally beaten down by the patriarchy and equally lost and wandering. At least women get to hug each other.

Don'tcha know that no one alive can always be an angel? When everything goes wrong, you see some bad But oh, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Either the key to a man's wallet is in his heart, or the key to a man's heart is in his wallet. So, unless you express your charity, you are locked inside your greed.

He cherished all those he treated, even the ones made mean by their sickness, even the ones he knew had been mean before they'd become sick, because by seeking his help, somehow they became his.

I have never had a money practice; it would have been impossible for me. But the actual calling on people, at all times and under all conditions, the coming to grips with the intimate conditions of their lives, when they were being born, when they were dying, watching them die, watching them get well when they were ill, has always absorbed me. —William Carlos Williams, M.D. Autobiography

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.