Quotes About Empathy

Each child wants to know immediately if he is a worthy person in your eyes. You cannot pretend, because the child knows all the things about himself that worry him. If you act like you like him, but ignore the things he is anxious about, it doesn't count. The child is glad you are nice to him, but deep down he figures if you really knew what he was like, you'd hate him. So your liking him without knowing him just makes him feel guilty.

Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.

Do you think you could stop crying for a minute? It makes conversation a bit difficult.

The nasty weatherpulls people together.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers.

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing [superstition], and love those who love you.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

We are all full of weakness and errors, let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.

We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what they are struggling against, and how the struggle stands- from day to day...as best you can; and second, to spread this knowledge among others, and endeavor to do what little you can to awaken the consciousness and sympathy of others.

The world is full of people who care but never quite care enough.

The only true way to forgive someone, it seems to me, is to forget what they have done to you and, in turn, forget them. Whether that is possible is another question.

Behold the man. (Ecce Homo)

I wish for you constantly for I want to talk about everybody and everything. I can't go up to a stranger & say 'your manners &looks have stirred me to this profound meditation'-

I nuzzled them both to remind them that there was really no need to grieve, since I was okay and really a much better pet than Smokey ever was.

This was, I decided, my purpose as a dog, to comfort the boy whenever he needed me.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

I realized that today I truly understood my purpose as Ellie: not just to Find people but to save them.

This was, I decided, my purpose as a dog, to comfort the boy whenever he needed me. Sometimes

When she sat on the couch I jumped up to be with her and I put my head in her lap. I could feel some of the tension and sadness leave her. I was giving Mom comfort. This was more important than going for walks, more important than helping feed the cats—it was the most important job I had. I knew I should sit with Mom for as long as she needed me.

She taught me that it was a good thing to love more than just my boy, Ethan, opening my eyes to the fact that I'd actually loved many people in my lives, that loving humans was my ultimate purpose.

It wasn't as much fun as being a doodle dog, but I now knew why these creatures, these human beings, had so fascinated me from the moment I saw them. It was because my fate was inextricably linked with theirs.

I tried to be comfortable in the rough, cold sand, pressed up against Tutu Nani's leg. I could feel some of the fear leaving her as I lay there, so I didn't try to change position. Having a dog nearby always makes things better.