Quotes About Empathy

Men are absolutely shits, but we get them in the end because we can suffer better. A woman can outsuffer a man every time.

Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.

A fulfilling relationship requires that the two partners be more concerned about giving than about receiving.

Research has found that satisfying relationships are characterized by a simple formula: two people mutually meeting each other's needs.

If your partner tells you about getting angry at a coworker and biting that person's head off, then you ought to wonder when that same attitude will be aimed at you.

The Golden Rule remains the best guidance in these matters," said Picard. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

We can prove that most Americans don't believe in pushing people around, even when we happen to be on top.

no one can make you feel bad about yourself without your permission.

Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own.

And finally, count your blessings. You got through college. You didn't commit suicide, O.D., or have a nervous breakdown, and let's remember the ones who did. It's time to get busy. It's your turn to cause trouble.

There's a prison there, too, which always makes me feel included.

I'm recognized in public about 80 percent of the time across this country, but during the other 20 percent when I'm not, I get pissed when I realize how shabbily other people must be treated every day. When store clerks or airline reps do suddenly recognize me and get nice after being grumpy when they didn't know who I was, I get testy right back.

When the worst thing that can happen to you does, I try to be a friend.

Listen to your political enemies, especially the smart ones, and then figure out a way to make them laugh.

You should never read just for enjoyment. Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own.

If you just broke up with someone, be sad; if you just ran over somebody drunk driving, feel depressed. You shouldn't take a pill that makes you feel okay about terrible things.

I look out through the eyeholes and feel exactly the way Michael Jackson's son Blanket must have felt

Like all lovers, they spoke much of themselves, as if they might thereby understand the world which made them possible.

He listened to his words fall as if from the mouth of another, and watched his father's face, which received those words as a stone receives the repeated blows of a fist.

if we were lucky enough to be living a good life, we should recognize this gift and thank God for it by looking out for others who need our help in breaking out of the cycle of poverty.

He suggested that if we were lucky enough to be living a good life, we should recognize this gift and thank God for it by looking out for others who need our help in breaking out of the cycle of poverty.

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you

Coach Wooden didn't treat everybody the same; he treated people the way they deserved to be treated.

What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience—even if you risk angering or hurting that person—you are offering the most valuable gift of all.