Quotes About Empathy

My Son, take it not sadly to heart, if any think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling to hear.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

In the world that lies ahead, religious pluralism is going to penetrate all cultures. How we live together with different points of view is going to become more and more important. I don't know whether we can make progress in such a project without a contemplative practice that alerts us to our own biases, prejudices, and self-centered programs for happiness, especially when they trample on other people's rights and needs.

I think that you've got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

The List is Life.", Schindler's List

Personal finances are like people's personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

Quien salva una sola vida, salva al mundo entero.

Later in the journey, Olek turned his head in against Henry's arm and began to weep. He would not at first tell Rosner what was wrong. When he did speak at last, it was to say that he was sorry to drag Henry off to Auschwitz. "To die just because of me," he said. Henry could have tried to soothe him by telling lies, but it wouldn't have worked. All the children knew about the gas. They grew petulant when you tried to deceive them.

Everybody's related, Lucy told us. The trouble with this world is that you wouldn't know it from the way we behave.

If you had more friends, maybe you wouldn't spend so much time with your demons.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one? —Lee Maracle, Ravensong

There is no greater wisdom than kindness

It's strange how you're sometimes forced to assume an unsympathetic view of yourself through borrowed eyes.

Jens Bjørneboe wrote that "he who hasn't experienced a full depression alone and over a long period of time—he is a child.

In Catcher in the Rye , the protagonist Holden Caulfield mentions reading books that make him wish he could be friends with the author and be able to call him on the phone and so forth. I would consider a literary work that made someone feel this way a success. Furthermore, it's the only kind of success in literature that means anything to me.

To think that another person shared my love for the icy bleakness of things .

It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm's way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things?

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

When feelings matter more than rationality or facts, education is a doomed enterprise. Emotion

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.