Quotes About Empathy

When youu take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

Haji Ali taught me to...slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

Do one good deed everyday and the world will be a better place

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.

Heading the list is the definitive quality that shines through Jesus and is to mark his followers. Jesus said, "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another" (John 13:35). To love your enemies and forgive those who intend your destruction is a love that comes from above.

Don't yell at people. Stand up for what's right. Put yourself in the other persons place. Respect women. Don't take no for an answer. Laugh at yourself. Don't believe what you are told. Fall in love.

Understand telling a Woman to "smile" is an imposition and a demand you have no right to make.

I love animals. I couldn't eat a whole one but I'll split one with you if you want.

She listened intently, her chin in her hand, her elbow on her knee. Poe couldn't remember ever having felt so heard by anyone in all his life.

that there aren't "people who don't like hockey," but rather people who have yet to let the light of hockey into their hearts.

May we all live up to his example; may we all try to be the one who hears a new

You're very close with your nephew." "Yes. Sometimes there are special relationships like that in families, you know?" He did not. She continued, "Where there is no static in the line. You just get each other.

One thing he'd learned time and again was that you never could tell what kind of private hell people were fighting through.

He considered. "When you come into a situation, don't want anything. Don't want approval. Don't want to scare people. Don't want anyone to like you. Don't need to prove anything to them or make them angry. Then you can see what's really happening.

I usually find," Evan said, "that people will show you how they want to be treated if you pay attention.

Key 20: We must become in our lives the very things that we choose to experience in our world.

In another portion of the teaching, Jesus states: "That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves."2 Ultimately, the love that lives within each of us is the source of all healing that we experience. To feel our love, however, we must be vulnerable to our pain. Hurt is one way for us to know how deeply we can feel. Our capacity to feel pain within ourselves, as well as have empathy for the pain of

even though we may be physically separated from one another, we can still be in instantaneous communication—and

I'm sorry," she said, still not turning to look at him. Then she laughed her sad laugh, and Jade realized how accustomed to it he had grown. He wondered how often she had laughed like that before she'd met him. "It feels like I'm doing that all the time now," she said. "Apologizing. More than I ever have." She finally turned to look at Jade. "Believe it or not, I usually have a difficult time with it.

Remember, the hard part isn't killing," he says, not for the first time, or the fiftieth. "The hard part is staying human.

I got him pegged as a classic DSM-IV antisocial personality disorder, but it's really hard to define him neatly," she finally said, moving to sit on the floor. "What's that give us?" Jade asked. "Lacking empathy, social responsibility, conventional morality. Displaying impulsiveness, abusiveness, sensation-seeking, and sometimes showing charm and seductiveness.