Quotes About Empathy

A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.

But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.

You know what guys do? They stand up for people. You know why? Two reasons. It's right. And it feels good. Even if the person doesn't know what you did. Maybe especially then.

You know what guys do? They stand up for people.

Emotional support is yet another facet of commitment, revealed by behavior such as being available in times of trouble and listening to the partner's problems.

If this world is hell, one can only have compassion for those who are obliged to live in it and breathe its poisonous air.

Strange, isn't it, how one can always learn to love oneself, however ghastly one is?

In accepting my lot, I also came to understand that suffering was universal, and that there wasn't anyone who was without pain of some kind; the difference between other people's suffering and mine was merely one of degree.

He not only wanted to talk; he half-believed that, if he talked to his dog as a person, in time London would come to understand. It's the way a child learns the language. All sorts of things are said to a baby; and all at once he knows what is being told him.

What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.

Allow God to continually soften your heart so that it beats for what his heart beats for - people.

Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for.

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?

God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

Our attitude toward others reveals our genuine attitude toward God.

When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.