Quotes About Empathy

It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and you become a wild beast yourself. (""The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah")

Mercy is the best attribute of humanity. The is nothing wrong with it. - Dr. Danie Estevez

He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never bebeloved by men.

He who shall hurt the little wrenShall never be belov'd by men.

Pity would be no more,If we did not make somebody poor;And Mercy no more could be,If all were as happy as we.

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's dispite.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

The ablest diplomat will never boast of understanding a man, but only his intentions.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

You need to bring losses out into the open—acknowledge them and express your concern for the affected people.

As for the rest of the emotions grieving people feel, treat them seriously, but don't consider them as something you personally caused. Don't get defensive or argumentative.

But remember: in your communications you need to speak to wherever people are now, not to where you want them to go, and they need your help, not in getting to the destination you want them ultimately to reach, but in taking the next step in the transition they find themselves in because of your big change.

No pain, no gain," they say. But many change efforts fail because the people affected experience only the pain. The company may gain, but for employees it seems to be all loss. Trying to talk them out of their feelings will get you nowhere.

You can try hard to protect people from further changes while they're trying to regain their balance.

Never denigrate the past. Many managers, in their enthusiasm for a future that is going to be better than the past, ridicule or demean the old way of doing things. In doing so they consolidate the resistance against the transition because people identify with the way things used to be and thus feel that their self-worth is at stake whenever the past is attacked.

I think having children makes one think in spiritual terms. I may not have a soul, but I'm certain Gloria has one. I only have to look into her eyes, and I see it moving about.

reason, say the elders, was so that you and future generations would not have to carry the pain.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned;Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned...

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with.