Quotes About Empathy

I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence...it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

The world is cruel, give me thy heart to take with me.

Lord Henry smiled. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognises infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

MRS ARBUTHNOT For me the world is shriveled to a palm's breath, and where I walk there are thorns. HESTER It shall not be so. We shall somewhere find green valleys and fresh waters, and if we weep, well, we shall weep together.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.

I often wonder what would have happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ, there had been a Christian.

A ti te gusta todo el mundo, o lo que es lo mismo, no te importa nadie

You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!

I can sympathize with everything except suffering. I cannot sympathize with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing.

none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Quien verdaderamente abriga en sí el amor, encuentra amor para consigo.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves.

The Noblest form of Affection

You don't understand what friendship is, Harry, he murmured—or what enmity is, for that matter. You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

He gives me good advice...People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

A misanthrope I can understand—a womanthrope, never!

It was a poor thing she felt for anyone to be born a foreigner.

I always pass on good advice.  It is the only thing to do with it.  It is never of any use to oneself. mabel

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own hands that love should come to cure us—else what use is love at all?

Influir en una persona supone darle nuestra alma