Quotes About Empathy

I've known for a long time about dolphins getting caught in nets and drowning there. But knowing is not the same as seeing it with your own eyes. I feel heavy, sad and responsible.

And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, their words are sweet and strong, like the fragrance of orchids. I Ching

I think there is in friendship, an instant recognition – a kind of loving. It needs just a word, in passing, the touch of a hand – yet parting is loss and the tiny ache of regret stays with us always.

My dad wrote to me. My mum put him up to it because she got this great idea that hearing from someone I'd never met and who didn't give a fuck about me might cheer me up...

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

if patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.

But I've been reading A Very Easy Death, about Simone de Beauvoir's mother dying of cancer – it's just brilliant. It really helped me.' She

It came to me that to turn the other cheek, as he had done, was not simply to apply an ancient Christian precept but also to engage in a highly sophisticated psychological maneuver. 216

sometimes, we touch each other. No one else gets that close to me. He behaves

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

There is only one terminal dignity -- love.

For maybe this is how poetry can be of use. Though it can't move with us, we can move it between us, pass it among us, so it is held up by our voices, so it moves with our breath, our living breath.

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The highest result of education is tolerance

To me, relationship is sacred because the spirit of God is manifest in empathic connection.

A version of the golden rule to do unto others as you would have them do unto you is present in every major religion for a reason. Relationships are the place where the mystical experience can become alive.

By seeing ourselves honestly, we have the capacity to understand others more deeply.

Each holy woman in this book made specific decisions based on her individual feelings, but her decisions represent universal impulses. In this sense, her private life translated into political and cultural statements. Whatever form it took, her mission was to end separation and restore connection. She opened her arms and brought others into the experience of love and belonging. Her actions sent the message that no person is excluded from the human family and the love of God.