Quotes About Empathy

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

We are ultimately at home in the world not through dominating or explaining or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for.

True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.

The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.

We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.

Home is where you feel unjudged, and where what I do isn't necessarily stupid or wrong.

When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.

I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.

I hoped you would consider it seriously instead of laughing at it.' 'Mr. Chamkanni said much the same thing in bed the first night home from the hospital

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

Charity and treating begin at home.

You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

I don't take characters home with me.

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.