Quotes About Empathy

You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.

Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

We will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy.

It is an honor to appear on the side of the afflicted

We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

I honor and protect my sensitivity.

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?