Quotes About Empathy

Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.

What if reincarnation really happens, and Jesus were reincarnated, & you were a total d*ck to him? It could happen. You should probably treat everyone like they were Jesus reincarnated.

siamo due liuti di cui l'uno ripete spontaneo e un po' confusamente i suoni toccati sulle corde dell'altro. Egli

Women, our superiors! Yes, my brothers: accept this strange judgement from the mouth of one who has known many of them. They

What is love? Love is not a collection of words, a sonnet, music or art. Love is the act of you not existing so that someone else can.

After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.

because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.

intentions. If our intentions are good and we are willing to ask for and offer forgiveness and express gratitude and loving feelings for another person, we usually feel better for having made the effort. Sometimes that needs to be enough. If the other person responds warmly, that's great. But, in matters of this sort, there is intrinsic value in making a good-faith effort. He said that all of this made sense and he would give it some thought.

It is morally and legally okay to show genuine concern for other people.

social connections are often as important as medical treatment in preventing physical, mental, and functional decline.

Similarly, to the family of a seriously ill person, sometimes plainly stating, "Your father is dying," can be a gift in the most difficult of times.

Levinas's thought emphasizes not the primacy of the self, but the primacy of the other—that is, other human beings. He taught that the self comes into existence

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

When you're older you'll come to realize that acts of kindness are few and far between in this world of ours.

Students are not a flotilla of boats trying to reach the teacher who is finished and waiting on the shore. The teacher is also one of the boats

no matter how inconvenient it was to him. That's what love's all about.

If you love someone, you should be there for them during the tough stretches, no matter the cost to yourself—or your job. Love's supposed to bear all things and endure all things. It's not supposed to fail.

If God was willing to give people a second chance, why should we do any less?

Ignoring a need is wrong.

Sometimes the least friendly people are the ones in greatest need of a friend.

Forgive me, Lord, for being afraid of people who are different than me. Help me find the courage to do what the good Samaritan did that day on the roadside. Give me grace and compassion to overcome my narrow-mindedness and bigotry. Help me drive out any feelings of superiority. Let me see everyone as an equal and a worthy brother and sister—and act accordingly.

perché anche una persona della stessa carne e dello stesso sangue può essere, crudelmente, del tutto inconsapevole del dolore che provoca.

Life is too short,I wonder how people hate