Quotes About Empathy

out that my father is in the hospital with lung cancer. No one in my family wanted to tell me about it. My niece who I hadn't talked to in years wrote me a letter to tell me that my dad had cancer and he needed a lung transplant. She said he was already skinny as a toothpick.

Sorry about what happened to your brother Robert." I didn't even understand what she was talking about. I had to wait until I got settled in at Ironwood and was allowed to make a phone call. My daughter told me that my brother Robert was dead.

I wanted to learn everything I could about the faces of addiction. I wanted to understand all the ripple effects of crime and violence.

The higher the rate of change, the more inter and intra-dis( I) ntegration, and that is expressed in lack of inter and intra-love. Lack of inter-love. What is that? Aggression, hostility toward others.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

Saying of the Prophet Understanding Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems. You ask me what to do about them. It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race. Face that one first.

Saying of the Prophet Accusations Anyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.

Saying of the Prophet Love Do you think you love your Creator? Love your fellow-creature first.

People talk about 'service, effort, love, knowledge'. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

Helping others I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Junaid de Bagdad pasaba por la escena de un ahorcamiento público, donde un ladrón se encontraba en el patíbulo. Junaid se inclinó en dirección al criminal. Alguien le preguntó: "¿Por qué hiciste eso?" Junaid dijo: "Me estaba inclinando ante la claridad de sus intenciones. Por su objetivo, ese hombre ha dado su vida.

Make mankind your dwelling place.

Saying of the Prophet Reflection The Faithful are mirrors, one to the other.

Detto del Profeta Riflessione I Fedeli sono specchi, gli uni per gli altri.

Si no comprendes, no puedes amar. Solamente puedes imaginar que amas.

Haz de la humanidad tu morada.

El Sendero no ha de ser encontrado en lugar alguno excepto en el servicio humano".