Quotes About Empathy

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

If we love a person, we love him, and whatever he may do will not affect our love. It may cause us pain if he does evil, because we love him; it may cause us sorrow and suffering; but it cannot affect our love.

Like storytelling, that incessant loving rush of explaining and repositioning and telling again, all for the sake of finding something shared, something mutually recognized -- so interpreting seemed to me. It seemed a kind of goodness.

I have been too fond of stories.

Food and shelter are very nice, but without stories to hear and tell, we might as well be the walking dead.

We are none of us free. We are tethered by our connections to other people, those we know as well as those we will never meet. What tethers us is our ability our responsibility to imagine them, to fathom their lives, their circumstances, what we have in common, and what sets us apart.

Why do people let me speak to them so rudely? If they'd let me get away with less, I might think what I said mattered more.

Katniss should have the most reasons to hate, having been sent into the arena not once, but twice. But despite everything she's been through, she's still capable of seeing the so-called "enemy" as individuals rather than as a monolithic entity. She remembers that Octavia snuck her a roll rather than see her hungry and that Flavius had to quit during the Quarter Quell because he couldn't stop crying.

He was completely interested in humanizing technology.

Coding gives people the ability to change the world and from my perspective, it's the most important second language and the only language that is global

leave the world a better place than we found it

Most management advice for the last twenty-five years has focused on issues like empathy and compassion. Advice books encourage building teamwork through kindness and understanding. There's been very little written about scaring the pants off employees to improve results. But as Richard Nixon said, "People react to fear, not love—they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

There is a notion in Britain of a T-shaped designer," Milton said, "one with depth of discipline in a single area but also a breadth of empathy for other areas of design.

At some point you have to love in order to be lovable.

I gave Nona my definition of what it means to carry the cross. It means to practice the Presence of Jesus and allow His love to flow through us to others; it means that we are to carry the life of Christ to other people and say to them, "The Kingdom of God has come to you.

We ontkenden de fouten van de ander niet. We wonnen hen terug door gebed. We vroegen Christus om met Zijn liefde in ons te komen en door ons heen naar die andere persoon toe te gaan, herinneringen te genezen en alles wat goed en mooi was aan die ander naar boven te laten komen

Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.

Love is a warm brain, not a leaping heart.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.