Quotes About Empathy

I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

She took him by the ears and blew into his nostrils to give him a start, then looked into his eyes to see what she had surprised there.

Commenting on Rom 9:1-5] The Christian church would never lack converts if all its members or even its ministers felt for their friends and fellow countrymen the deep concern expressed by the apostle Paul for his kinsmen the Jews.

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them." —LIFE TOGETHER

I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil.

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.' Then look your fill, and leap away.

When I communicate my thought and my sentiments to a friend with whom I am in full sympathy, so that my feelings pass into him and I am conscious of what he feels, do I not live in his brain as well as in my own—most literally?

Relatable is the secret of success.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

we almost always make the implicit assumption that everybody else thinks and ex-periences about the same way as we do, with the exception of "crazy" people.

the dark side of individualism is a centering on the self, which both flattens and narrows our lives, makes them poorer in meaning, and less concerned with others or society.

Jesus reserved his harshest judgement for those who professed to be righteous but failed to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, visit the sick and imprisoned. "Depart from me, you accursed!" he thundered.

I lost my own daughter and I'll never have another. The hurt doesn't go away, no matter what you tell yourself. It's there day and night. I'd have killed any man who touched her. Why should I stand for such talk about another man's child, if I wouldn't have stood for it about my own?

When you watch the living force go out of a man's face as you fire your weapon into his unprotected body, it is very personal

Love teaches you humility—patience—understanding.

Sometimes you see briefly into someone's heart, and it becomes a bond between you that goes beyond friendship.

A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.