Quotes About Empathy

For the pedant, dates are deities, worthy of worship, but for the true social historian, they are minutiae only, a shorthand, convenient reminders and no more. You do not ask a Titanic survivor, 'Let me see now, just exactly when was that?' You ask him this: 'What was it like? How did you feel?' And that is the job of the social historian: to make the past vibrant for the present; to emotionally involve those of us who were not there. And to make us understand.

sorry about that, Helen)

But, to judge the action fairly, we must transport ourselves to the age when it happened.

Love your neighbor as yourself" cannot mean love your neighbor as if your neighbor were you. Only

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. [ The Sick Chamber ( The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

I have one friend, a dog; yes, I would sooner have old Pepper than the rest of Creation together. He, at least understands me-and has sense enough to leave me alone when I am in my dark moods.

I did some Twelfth Step work down there once before. They put alcoholics right in with the crazy people. It's horrible—these men all twisted and shaking—eyes all foggy and full of pain. Some guy there with his fists clamped together, so he couldn't kill anyone. There was a young man, just a young man, had scratched his eyes out.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then a young Kennedy appointee in the Labor Department, spoke for most when he said, "I don't think there's any point in being Irish if you don't know the world is going to break your heart eventually." During those four cold, bleak November days, all Americans were Irish.

8. Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another, though he were your enemy.

For life is all too short, dear, And sorrow is all too great, To suffer our slow compassion That tarries until too late; And it isn't the thing you do, dear, It's the thing you leave undone Which gives you a bit of a heartache At the setting of the sun.

Too often have we believed the old lie that says we're bad, we're perverted, we're abominations. But those who spread the lie don't know. They don't know how we love, how we hurt, how we live.

It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own.

Cara untuk menjadi bijaksana adalah tahu apa yang harus dimaafkan.

No one of us ought to issue vetoes to the other, nor should we bandy words of abuse.

This is too busy a world for us to stop and wonder whether a man wants what he does not ask for. Too many are clamoring loudly for what we cannot give...

Of all that we're asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.

Our former selves are never dead. We speak to them, arguing against decisions we know will bring only unhappiness, offering consolation and hope, even though they cannot hear.

Of all that we're asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.

The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.