Quotes About Empathy

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

And I think right now I'm just enjoying finding something such as One Weekend a Month where I can really resonate with this woman's history and her situation.

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.

It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

We're all just walking each other home.

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.

Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.