Quotes About Empathy

their vulnerabilities, while different, may be profound.

Until you can give up being a judge of yourself and others, you cannot begin a search into compassion.

she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

No one knows how another person feels in private.

Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this off with the head attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?

Before you judge me, look in the mirror.

You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander, Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter.

In the case of lived experience, there is no difference between an object that is perceived and the eye that perceives it.

see with nobody's eyes, we hear with nobody's ears, we feel with nobody's hearts, but our own.

He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none of us resist.

You don't have to speak at all— I know what you'd say… - Laura

accustomed to lure him into speaking of himself. But she put them far less spontaneously, far less adroitly, than usual. Her one all-absorbing anxiety in entering that room was not an anxiety to be trifled with.

The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let's hope it will be made up to them in another.

He started up, and wrung my hand in quite an ecstasy of gratitude. How I do hate people who can only express their feelings by hurting other people's hand.

I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

Forgive me, dear Mr. Troy! I am very unhappy, and very unreasonable—but I am only a woman, and you must not expect too much from me.

Man's duty, says the Avesta, is three-fold: "To make him who is an enemy a friend; to make him who is wicked righteous; and to make him who is ignorant learned."76

It would be better to abandon our overrapid development of the intellect, and to aim rather at training the heart and the affections

in calling other human beings "savage" or "barbarous" we may be expressing no objective fact, but only our fierce fondness for ourselves, and our timid shyness in the presence of alien ways.

Great men speak to us only so far as we have ears and souls to hear them; only so far as we have in us the roots, at least, of that which flowers out in them.

And indeed, great men speak to us only so far as we have ears and souls to hear them; only so far as we have in us the roots, at least, of that which flowers out in them.

People are kind to one another in the real world, even if it's a meaningless kindness. It goes unremarked upon. But it shouldn't. We are always much angrier on our phones than we are in the real world.

If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species.