Quotes About Empathy

So much of our pain is rooted in the responses of other people, or rather, in our perceptions of what those responses are or (even more painful) what they may be.

you. To add glumness to disability is to double its crippling power. Jessy's cheeriness still smooths her way.

Clara Claiborne Park

Real courage is being kind again, after you've felt that your kindness was thrown in your face. To risk it once more, or even twice more takes a special strength.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. -- On Eleanor Roosevelt

We sit together in silence for a while. This is what I have always liked about James. We can make a good silence together. There's something between us that doesn't need words or actions. It settles around us and I can feel it now, hovering gently, ready to wrap me in its nebulous folds, like a delicate lace shawl. I want it to be like this always, something inside us meeting and holding hands, something calm and soothing and healing.

If there is one thing I learned from Maggie it was that you accept people as they are, and you just don't demand more than they want to give.

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

You can only be free if I am free.

Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's body must throw off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every tissue and cell. Nor are we to allow ourselves to become easily discouraged when love is not always obviously successful or pleasant. Love never quits, even when an enemy has hit you on the right cheek and you have turned the other, and he's also hit that.

He is not commanding us to demand our rights. The only right that love has is the right to give itself.

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.

Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most?

Would it be simplistic to think the moral problem with regards to others consists in behaving as one ought to, and the moral problem with regards to oneself is managing to feel what one ought to?

The world would only cease to terrify me if I became the world. If I were the world, I wouldn't be afraid. If we are the world, we are moved by a delicate radar that guides.

Suffering for a being deepens the heart within the heart.