Quotes About Empathy

All my actions have their source in my inalienable love of humankind.

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn't seem so dangerous at the time.

like isolated apartment dwellers running the TV for company, we sense a deeper isolation beneath the babble of voices, the poverty of our communications.

You think the dead really care about our lives? -Yeah, I think they do. I think they forgive us our sins. -I even think it's easy for them.

Everything we were grabbing for, we are to instead give. It is the only way to truly seize it.

Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

at the heart of permaculture lay a gorgeously empathetic view of human nature: people aren't inherently wasteful and greedy, but fall into those patterns because of the temptations of the modern world.

How can a man hope to promote peace in the world if he has not made it possible in his own life and his own household?

By opening our hearts, revealing our scars, we are made human and flawed and whole.

Do what I sometimes do when I get scared: imagine you're someone else, someone who's far braver and smarter.

Someone very wise once told me that by opening our hearts, revealing our scars, we are made human and flawed and whole.

We have heard that, too," the priest said. "But we can't stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we're frightened. If we lose love, all is lost. We just have to get smarter.

But we can't stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we're frightened. If we lose love, all is lost. We just have to get smarter.

by opening our hearts, revealing our scars, we are made human and flawed and whole. I guess I'm ready to be whole.

we can't stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we're frightened. If we lose love, all is lost.

the trick to doing almost anything difficult was to act like someone else, someone who belonged.

Right there—listening and complimenting—you're ahead of eighty percent of every guy on the face of the earth.

They want us down to nothing, Emil, people with no pasts!" Emil held his wife as she trembled and shook, feeling as helpless as she did.

But we can't stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we're frightened. If we lose love, all is lost.

I failed you," Pino choked. "Christmas Eve, you were there to stand by me, come what may. And I wasn't there for you. I . . . I don't know why. I can't even explain it to myself. I wish I'd stood against the wall with you, Anna.

But someone very wise once told me that by opening our hearts, revealing our scars, we are made human and flawed and whole.

What possesses men to do such evil? Are they even human? Can't they see that when you kill someone or destroy a holy place, the faith always goes on? Don't they see that in broken hearts and ruins, something always glows?

we can't stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we're frightened.

A wise man once said the bruises of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy,