Quotes About Empathy

If each man were to lay down his weapon, and say, With a click of his heels, "I wish you Good-day," Now what, may I ask, could the Emperor do? A king and his minions are really so few.

How can I help?

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear

If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed?

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

But we don't always go to church" -Emily "Caring about people doesn't just take place there. It's how you act out in the world, when no one is looking, where it really counts" -Dad

me, loving someone means carrying them, and feeding them, and holding them when they're scared. God might be up there"—he nodded his head back, tilting up toward the ceiling—"but I'm down here.

A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

To do something however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

My legs! Lord Jesus stop the pain in my legs!" "Hush John," Florida said. "That's only phantom pain." "Is it real?" I asked her. She shrugged. "All pain is real.

Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool.

One thing I do know about death. The "better" the person, the more loving and happy and caring, the less of a gap that person's death makes.

Angel is responsible for all the AA prayers and mottoes. DON'T THINK AND DON'T DRINK. Angel put a cold wet one-sock on Tony's head and knelt beside him. "Brother, believe me … I've been there … right down there in the gutter where you are. I know just how you feel." Tony didn't open his eyes. Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool.

Existe un vínculo entre los pacientes de diálisis, como entre los alcohólicos anónimos o los supervivientes de un terremoto. Son conscientes del indulto, se tratan unos a otros con más ternura y respeto que la gente normal.

My tears were for my own loneliness, my own blindness.

Anytime you think you hate somebody, what you do is pray for them. Try it, you'll see.