Quotes About Empathy

He was a very tenderhearted guy - not towards people necessarily, but towards goldfish.

If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.

Therapy opened me up and enabled me to appreciate how fulfilling it was to be truly heard. That led me to the thought: "You know, somebody else might actually have something to say. Let's just sit here and listen and not make it all about you.

You will find what you look for in people and in the world. If you are loving, you will find love. If you seek beauty, you will see beauty. If you pursue goodness, you will receive goodness. What you are inside will attract the same from outside. When you love, love comes to you. When you hate, hate finds you.

There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another's need out of one's fullness and plenty.

There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another's need out of one's fullness and plenty. One

To revile because one has been reviled—this is the real evil because it is the evil of the soul itself." Jesus saw this with almighty clarity. Again and again he came back to the inner life of the individual.

It is a grievous blunder to assume that understanding is always sympathetic. Very often we use the phrase "I understand" to mean something kindly, warm, and gracious. But there is an understanding that is hard, cold, minute, and deadly. It is the kind of understanding that one gives to the enemy, or that is derived from an accurate knowledge of another's power to injure. There is an

Thurman proclaims that Jesus, a poor non-Roman Jew, knew intimately what it meant to be "a member of a minority group in the midst of a larger dominant and controlling group." Therefore, Thurman declares, "the teachings and the life of Jesus" have something special "to say to those who stand, at a moment in human history, with their backs against the wall.

To revile because one has been reviled—this is the real evil because it is the evil of the soul itself.

It is very easy to sit in judgment upon the behavior of others but often difficult to realize that every judgment is a self-judgment.

I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.

The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

Margaret could not reply. Was he incredibly stupid, or did he understand her better than she understood herself?

You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'round With tombstones in their eyes But the pusher don't care Ah, if you live or if you die.

Taxidermia. Art forms come in many ways, but nothing conveys a psychopathic outlook more then stuffing your dead pet.

If men knew each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Never give up on anybody.

Van één ding zijn we zeker : dat we mensen zijn, stof onder de sterren. En dat alle menselijke geluk en alle menselijke leed door mensen veroorzaakt wordt.

Le long sentier vers l'humanisation de l'humanité est éclairé par trois lumières : le désir de comprendre le monde (la science), de l'embellir (l'art) et d'aider les êtres vivants à vivre (l'empathie). Trois mots à retenir : « connaîtras », « créer », « compatir ».

I guess we're kindred souls and that's why we can feel so close to each other.