Quotes About Empathy

Never deprive someone of hope it may be all they have

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

He suspected that when Feynman wanted to know what an electron would do under given circumstances he merely asked himself, "If I were an electron, what would I do?

Difference in opinion if such there be me thinks shoud not be the occasion of Enmity.

Survival of all or none. One raindrop raises the sea. Weapons are enemies even to their owners. Give more, take less. Others first, self last. Observe, listen, and learn. Do one thing at a time. Sing every day. Exercise imagination. Eat to live, don't live to eat.

If white Americans could look at the terror they inflicted on their own black population—slavery, segregation, and lynching—then they might be able to understand what is coming at them from others.

When Niebuhr thought a little more deeply about Darrow's empathy with black suffering, however, he said, "I suppose it is difficult to escape bitterness when you have eyes to see and heart to feel what others are too blind and too callous to notice."[29]

The essence of the gospel of Christ stands or falls on the question of black humanity, and there is no way that a church or institution can be related to the gospel of Christ if it sponsors or tolerates racism in any form.

I can't bear it, Mr. Herriot. He was like a Christian was that pig, just like a Christian.

I can't bear it, Mr. Herriot. He was like a Christian was that pig, just like a Christian.

It took me longer than I thought and it seemed to me that the calf was beginning to lose patience with me because when its head was forced out by the cow's contractions we were eye to eye and I fancied the little creature was giving me a disgusted "For heaven's sake get on with it" look.

Then the nose moved along the rubber tube up to the bottle and back again, sniffing with the utmost concentration. When I removed the needle the nose began a careful inspection of the injection site. Then a tongue appeared and began to lick the bullock's neck methodically. I squatted back on my heels and watched. This was something more than mere curiosity; everything in the dog's attitude suggested intense interest and concern.

When a lonely, penniless old woman dies people don't rush up to you in the street to tell you.

More: as the cure depends on care, so does caring sometimes mean nothing more than carrying.

And there's another thing, too—it don't hurt when you chip me about it. Thick-skinned and tenderhearted, that's my mixture.

she really did possess a love for humanity, and the further removed humanity was, both in space and time, the more she loved it.

Touchy, no sense of humor, no sense of proportion—that was the matter with them, these new fellows... No sense of proportion. And it was a sense of proportion, above all things, that Brookfield ought to teach

If you have to hurt other people in order to feel powerful, you are an extremely weak individual.

Keep love in your heart. A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

Beware of someone who doesn't make a simple effort to respect your feelings and needs.

I'll cry with you when you are hurting, and when they make you feel like you are not good enough. Because it's who I am, and you're what I need.

Sometimes giving someone a second chance is like giving them a extra bullet for their gun because they missed you the first time.

Sometimes "I tell myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much.

If I love them you I will carry all their pain, you will protect them from their own insecurity, and know that your life is better for it.