Quotes About Empathy

God gives us health so that we may serve the sick.

True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

There is no health without mental health.

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Health care is at the beginning of a dialogue with the world... as health care providers, we have to ask ourselves this question: What stories are we not hearing?

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.

Forgiving is good for your health.

Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?

Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient.

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?