Quotes About Empathy

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Schop de mensen tot ze een geweten krijgen.

understanding the excitement that drove this religion requires that we consider always the perspectives of the faithful.

The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result.

You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.

No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding.

I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

I believe everybody in the world should try to help somebody else. Let's say half the people in the world are successful. If they help the other half, hey, you've got no problem.

What I've learned is that the more you help people, the longer you live. The good feelings are a healing process.

My forgiveness was so authentic and total that I looked forward to seeing each of them. I longed to look into their eyes and say not only "I forgive you," but to tell them of the greatest event of forgiveness the world has ever known when Christ on the Cross, and at the peak of his agony, could say of his executioners, "Forgive them father, for they know not what they do.

I thought I had problems, but now, knowing what you went through, I've stopped feeling sorry for myself. I'm going to quit tearing myself apart and treat my problems more lightly.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.

In ordering one's self aright one helps others to do the same.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?