Quotes About Empathy

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Everyone is normal until you get to know them.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Someone once told me you don't know about cancer until it touches you. That's when it touched my brother, Mickey. There's nothing like it. When it touches you, it's overwhelming.

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.

I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.

At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people.

I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.

Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position.

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40.

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Suffer little children and come unto me.