Quotes About Empathy

Was he nice? He didn't know. He hoped he was, but how many of us truly know?

We don't think us and them. It's just you, versus everyone else. No one else matters.

Had she been guided by some unexpressed belief that Negroes were somehow unfit for a white woman to touch? She didn't know, but this moment in the gray morning jarred her to awareness. Rosalie felt no different from any other child hurting.

I have dwelt a while in the soul of a shackled black man and taken a little of it into my own, forever.

I cannot describe the change nor do I know when it took place, yet I know that there is a change for I look on the carcass of a man now with pretty much such feeling as I would were it a horse or hog.

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving.

Even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself: but from some character in whose soul I now live.

But even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself, but from some Character in whose soul I now live. I am sure however that this next sentence is from myself—I feel your anxiety, good opinion, and friendship, in the highest degree, and am Yours most sincerely John Keats.

the further idea that to fit it for such tasks two things above all are necessary, growth in human sympathy through the putting down of self, and growth in knowledge and wisdom through strenuous study and meditation

Fino a che una cosa non ci ammala, non la capiamo.

To be thrown among people who care not for you, with whom you have no sympathies[-] [it] forces the Mind upon its own resources, and leaves it free to make its speculations [on] the differences of human character and to class them with the calmness of a Botanist...

What is it, Gus? A problem? Are you having a problem? That's one of your problems. You never tell me your problems.

Claude puede ser amable y bueno, y eso no puedes serlo tú, con toda tu política y tus aires de sabio. Con todo lo que he hecho siempre por ti, lo único que tú haces es tratarme a patadas. Quiero que alguien me trate bien antes de morir. Lo aprendiste todo, Ignatius, todo, salvo cómo debe comportarse un ser humano.

For every nice thing I ever done for you, I just get kicked around. I want to be treated nice by somebody before I die. You learnt everything, Ignatius, except how to be a human being

Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

He was nodding his head, his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. "I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you. You've already shown me and I believe you.

Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. "I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by genereations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you. You've already shown me and I believe you.

i believe you. its okay because i understand and i believe you. you've already shown me and i believe you.

but people's memories are short for any sorrow that isn't theirs...