Quotes About Empathy

But the love of man for man is a far more tender thing, and so simple that it is universal. To love in this way is not the privilege of any especially prepared intellectual class, but lies within the reach of all men.

From the child itself he will learn how to perfect himself as an educator.

Our joy is to touch, and conquer souls, and this is the one prize which can bring us a true compensation.

work with deficient children (1898 to 1900)

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

It takes courage to care. It takes passion to stand up for someone or something you believe in and care about.

So, if you're feeling down, confused, or shaken, read the Prayer of Saint Francis. If you're feeling elated, vindicated, or boastful, read the Prayer of Saint Francis. It's withstood the test of time, because it works.

The Shriver Report reveals this quiet reality: The people who we expect to raise us, care for us, and work to support us are too often left unsupported and uncared for.

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

My mom doesn't know what it's like to be less than perfect, how people zoom in on that until it's all they see. Maybe because it weirds them out...or maybe because it makes them feel better about themselves. People do pretty ugly things to make themselves feel better, this I do know.

Listening - It's an old-fashioned concept, I know".

He'd seen so much pain over the past few years that in some ways he'd become immune to thinking about what others felt. But when it came to his mother—his indomitable, invincible mother—he, too, hated the thought. She was the epitome of strength to him

I don't want there to be bad feelings between us, Rachel." "You mean, maybe we could be friends?" "Oh, at the very least, yes. Friends. That's a start.

Guess when you know no one's listening, you just stop talking.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

There comes a time when you must get the care and love that maybe you shied from showing others.