Quotes About Empathy

In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?

If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

If seeing that other person's pain brings up your fear or anger or confusion (which often happens), just start doing tonglen for yourself and all the other people who are stuck in the very same way.

Do you get the anger that is out here?

Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

Only a dog would lick a finger pointed in anger.

Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says. By such signs you can tell, for instance, what he thinks of his wife . . .

Il ne nous suffit pas de comprendre nos obligations à l'égard des autres et de la terre; nous devons aussi les ressentir.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we know that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

It is useless to try to adjudicate a long-standing animosity by asking who started it or who is the most wrong. The only sufficient answer is to give up the animosity and try forgiveness, to try to love our enemies and to talk to them and (if we pray) to pray for them. If we can't do any of that, then we must begin again by trying to imagine our enemies' children who, like our children, are in mortal danger because of enmity that they did not cause.