Quotes About Empathy

Man is shut out from Heaven and Peace and Truth only in so far as he shuts out others from his sympathy. Where his sympathy ends his darkness and torment and turmoils begin.

Sympathy is bliss; in it is revealed the highest, purest blessedness. It is divine, for in its reciprocal light all thought of self is lost, and there remains only the pure joy of oneness with others.

A man's sympathy extends just so far as his wisdom reaches, and no further; and a man only grows wiser as he grows tenderer and more compassionate. To narrow one's sympathy is to narrow one's heart, and so to darken and embitter one's life.

When a man is rescued from selfish desire his mind is unencumbered, and he is free to work for humanity.

To sympathise with another is to receive his being into our own, to become one with him, for unselfish love indissolubly unites, and he whose sympathy reaches out to and embraces all humankind and all living creatures has realised his identity and oneness with all, and comprehends the universal Love and Law and Wisdom.

Joy cannot remain with the selfish; it is wedded to Love.

Always say to yourself, I'd rather be healthy than right. Because the infection of someone so wounded will spread to you if you engage.

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

Grow antennae, not horns.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Gauge thy life wisely but gauge thy neighbors' wiser!

Thou should not judge harshly, because thou too will be so judged by the same measure

The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.

The more one is truly human, the more one is able to trust, because one understands the reasons for believing in another.

When they cry "Man overboard!" the oceanliner, as big as a house, stops all at once and the man they fish out with the ropes. But when a man's soul is overboard, when he drowns from horror and from desperation not even his own household stops but distances itself.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.

put aside hatred and take up love" (356)

Only selfish people are negative, Angel.

P.S. Do no violence. Kill no one.

Quizás también sin antiguo daño, sin íntimo terror, no haya conocimiento ni bondad tampoco.. Del poema "Investiga la ciencia del dolor

Schopenhauer once said: the life of one dog may be worth more than the lives of many human beings.