Quotes About Empathy

There I was, listening to four students play something that had been written in another time in another country and it seemed like nothing less than magic. The music was mournful and all I could think about was how unhappy Mr Tchaikovsky must have been when he wrote it. Whatever his pain was, I thought I knew exactly how he felt.

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

Membenci orang lain adalah laksana membakar rumah kita sendiri untuk mengusir seekor tikus.

Loving one and loving all leads us unto true love!

Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.

Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books give us a glimmer of the complexity and wonder of life. All this, the censor would deny us.

Only when she was alone did she have the sense that she really existed; other people might be frightened precisely because of that sense, but she was frightened of other people because they stole it from her.

Ieder mens heeft geloof ik het gevoel, dat hij er eigenlijk niet bijhoort, bij het leven van de andere mensen. Dat hij op een of andere manier iets anders is, een gast, en hij doet alle mogelijke moeite om te zorgen, dat de anderen dat niet zullen merken. Dat is het gevoel, dat alle mensen gemeen hebben, en daardoor horen ze juist bij elkaar.

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

You could chat with anyone; being silent together without it becoming embarrassing was a lot rarer.

What sticks with her students long after they're gone and grown up is the feeling that, as children, this adult treated them as human beings.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I have a very simple belief about acting. The job of the actor is to play someone who they are not.

It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.