Quotes About Empathy

The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

I wish I could help," he murmured, with a turn to the Victrola handle. "We help one another by understanding one another: that is the only help there is.

We help one another by understanding one another. That is the only help there is. And the only hope as well.

There's things in a woman a man may never understand.

Here, now, Jack," she said in a kindly tone, "lay your head against the back of the chair—that's good, just so." She peered down

First, see if you can make three positive comments for every negative one (and, by the way, a count is one negative comment).

friendliness also mean being sensitive to the children's feelings: sharing their joy over a new friend, comforting them when their ice cream falls on the ground, listening sympathetically when they're

Being warm and friendly also means liking—not just loving—your children. The

They are not born reasonable and unselfish; they are born unreasonable and selfish. They want what they want when they want it, and they will have a major fit if they don't get it. Consequently, it is the parent's job—and the teacher's job—to help kids gradually learn frustration tolerance. In accomplishing this goal, adults need to be gentle, consistent, decisive, and calm.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their parents. Let us imitate God in this one thing: As God spares us, and passes by many failures, so let us be sparing in our censures of others; let us look upon the weaknesses and indiscretions of our brethren with...a more tender, compassionate eye. How much God bears with us!

It is not how much we do, but how much we love.

The more helpful we are to others, the more like we are to God.

Grace makes the heart tender, it causes sympathy and charity. As it melts the heart in contrition towards God, so in compassion towards others.

La moralidad sin piedad es una profunda locura.

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

That's the trouble with thoughtlessness; it never remembers other people.

They feared him, and because they feared him, they hated him. ....You see, they didn't understand that really he had one of the kindest hearts in the world; and he didn't understand that they hated him just because they didn't know him.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring.

She talked that night of all those out in the dark (she was thinking of Esteban alone, she was thinking of Pepita alone) who had no one to turn to, for whom the world perhaps was more than difficult, without meaning.

Live people don't understand, do they?