Quotes About Empathy

As in the case of all first dates, only 70% of their brains was talking, listening, and responding to what the other was saying. The other 30% was wondering..

The human being is designed for many things. Loneliness is not one of them. We are not meant to go through this life alone.

In the matter of prejudice...we are all the same. Goddess and demon, human and monster: none of us understand difference, but at least some of us make the effort to try.

What did it matter what she wrote about a dead Swedish girl, when people in other parts of the world did nothing but kill each other?

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.

She didn't want to encourage me by asking questions. She didn't want me to go deeper into that other world. She worried she would lose her Matilda to Victorian England.

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Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.

I appeal to any white man to say if he ever entered Logan's cabin hungry and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked and he clothed him not?

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

It is more blessed to give than to receive." (Acts 30:35)

You really don't know a person until you spend some time in their panties.

A pigs and pain, until you really get to know 'em. Then he's a paid with the soul.

Friends disregard your failures and endure your successes.

Be true to yourself, be kind to others, be honest, don't say anything if you have nothing nice to say

I've always believed that what you give in life is exactly what you get back," Mom said. "You have given a lot to others, and one of these days you will get back the things you dream of!

She was thinking about the other part of Carollynn's story. The part about giving something back. Mom has always taught us that , she thought. What Carollynn is saying is the same thing. You get what you give in life. And sometimes you have to give it back, too.

Sometimes what really damages us is not so much the controversy but the impression that we don't really understand others' objections.

You can learn to project more power without becoming meaner. In fact, that's your problem. You think mean and powerful are the same thing.