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Quotes About Empathy

i don't know what your situation is but i wanted you to know what mine is not just to explain some rude behavior, but because we're on a little boat for a while and... i'm soul sick. and you're going to see that.
~ John Patrick Shanley
Alexander Morris, lieutenant governor of Manitoba in the 1870s and chief treaty negotiator: "[I wish] to take the Ojibwa by the hand and never let go your hand." We
~ John Ralston Saul
Tidak ada penggandaan yang lebih cepat dan hebat daripada penggandaan akan kebaikan hati.
~ John Ray
There are kids at our school with brown skin and kids with black skin, but I knew a kid with green skin would just be too much.
~ Unknown
They know that they are practically unarmed. Yet they are trying to find out how to help us.
~ John Ringo
We don't have to understand or agree with other people's decisions in order to respect and uphold the worthiness of their lives.
~ John Robbins
Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures
~ John Ruskin
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
~ John Ruskin
A man never stood so tall as when he stooped to help a child.
~ John Ruskin
Do not think of your faults; still less of others' faults: in every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong: honor that; rejoice in it; and, as you can try to imitate it: and your faults will drop off like dead leaves, when their times comes.
~ John Ruskin
If we're others-centered, we'll be blessed, but if we're clothed in selfishness, we'll be of limited value to others.
~ John Ruskin
You gotta try harder to be kind, man. We're all trapped on this earth together.
~ John Sandford
Hold my hand." "What?" "C'mon, hold my hand. He's a 'phobe. Lean your head a little sideways into me, look me in the eyes, and we walk toward the front of the store, taking our time . . ." Lucas said, "Ah, shit," and took Virgil's hand. One of the FBI agents said, watching them, "Oh my God.
~ John Sandford
They were the kind of people whose unhappiness tended to become your unhappiness, to say nothing of your screaming agony.
~ John Sandford
Don't discount that part of who he was just because you didn't know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.
~ John Scalzi
Jesus, Kerensky said, looking around. You people. I have one of the most incredible experiences I'll ever have, talking with the one person who really gets me - who really understands me - and you're all down here thinking I'm performing some sort of time-travelling incestuous masturbation thing.
~ John Scalzi
Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human.
~ John Scalzi
You're an interesting person, Jack. Sullivan said. I wish I could figure out what you were thinging when you punched Stern and turned on Isabel. Well, I think that's the thing. Holloway said. I think it's clear that sometimes I just don't think. I think you do. Sullivan said. It's just you think about you first. The not thinking part comes right after that.
~ John Scalzi
Virtue signaling' is a phrase the dim and bigoted use when they want to discount other people expressing the idea that it would be nice if we could all be essentially and fundamentally decent to each other.
~ John Scalzi
What if I told you that that which makes you fundamentally human is something that you share with another people, a people so different from you that they might appear strange or frightening at first glance. A people who might terrify you from appearance alone. Could you make the jump, and understand that inside, they are not so different at all?
~ John Scalzi
Hickory clicked something to Dickory in their native tongue; Dickory clicked back. Hickory responded, and Dickory replied, it seemed a bit forcefully. And then, God help me, Hickory actually sighed.
~ John Scalzi
Here's a hot tip: If you think calling someone a social justice warrior is an insult, you might be a horrible person.
~ John Scalzi
I'm saying pay attention to when it makes sense to say something," Vann said. "And pay attention to when it makes sense to hold it in for the moment. I get that you're used to saying what you think to anyone, anytime. That comes from being an entitled rich kid.
~ John Scalzi
Stop whining like a fucking child." "You could have just said, 'I need your help.'" "All right. I need your help. Stop whining like a fucking child." "That's not better.
~ John Scalzi