Quotes About Empathy

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives -- everyone dies eventually -- but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness.

All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.

How terrible, " said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.

I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.

We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.

A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.

...this two-way hatred. I don't understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

If i were to lose a friend...then i couldn't die in peace!

A smile to someone could make the difference between them going home and axe murdering their family or having a nice meal!

...I'm just beginning to understand how kind you are.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Designers are not users.

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

To touch somebody's heart with design.

In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.

It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.

Design that moves others comes from issues that move you.

Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.