Quotes About Empathy

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

She alone would do a mad and wonderful thing like that, ringing me up. No one else ever did things like that for me. I always had had to do the ringing up and the asking, and going to people's rooms, always I was the one to ask for love.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

Most of all, I pray that no one ever again, in any walk of life, has to go through what I did.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.

It is not eloquence, but earnestness, not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

Wie schön das Leben ist, erfährt man nur, wenn man sich nicht vor allem verschließt, was einem fremd erscheint.

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

Sometimes Dr Reichhardt would say, 'We live not for ourselves, but for others. What we make of ourselves we make not for ourselves, but for others…

Das ist es ja, was ich immer sage: wir sind feige. Wir denken nur an das, was mit uns geschehen wird, nie an das, was den andern geschieht.

We live not for ourselves, but for others. What we make of ourselves we make not for ourselves, but for others…

Even death row speaks, breathes, lives. Even on death row, the deep-seated urge to communicate cannot be extinguished.

Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité...

A man whose wife has done everything he wishes for twenty years can never understand why she so suddenly changes. The woman who for twenty years has been silent, forgiving, smiling, patient, becomes in his eyes a rebel when in the twenty-first year she loses her patience and argues, accuses, demands explanations.Then she is a mutineer against whom every stratagem is permissible. Twenty years of patience have only given her the right to be patient also in the twenty-first.

To forgive without justice is a self-satisfying weakness. Justice without love is a simulation of strength.

In all my years of Ghost Hunting I have never been afraid, after all, a ghost is only a fellow human being in trouble

i speak for none of you now,all you plotters of perfect crimes,nor for me, nor for anyone.i speak for those who can't speak,for the deaf and dumb witnesses,for otters and seals,for the ancient owls of the earth.

To live with another within the compass of one heart: I must move to the side, must make myself small, so that the other has space and does not feel crowded.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.