Quotes About Empathy

I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.

She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!" "Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she ain't hurt!

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

My hope is that we can shift our focus away from merely avoiding saying or doing racist things, to becoming lovers of people. When we focus on honoring others as our mission in life, differences fade. Prejudice becomes a foreign concept. We begin seeing the image of God in the people we meet, and finding joy in helping others fulfill their God-given callings.

To be human is to be in a story.

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

Our humanity is not a standard by which we are to measure his. His humanity, true and unadulterated, is the standard by which we are to be measured.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even when they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

because she would not believe that she was no different than her parents, that seeing him as only Korean—good or bad—was the same as seeing him only as a bad Korean. She could not see his humanity, and Noa realized that this was what he wanted most of all: to be seen as human.

Yes, of course. If you love anyone, you cannot help but share his suffering. If we love our Lord, not just admire him or fear him or want things from him, we must recognize his feelings; he must be in anguish over our sins. We must understand this anguish. The Lord suffers with us. He suffers like us. It is a consolation to know this. To know that we are not in fact alone in our suffering.

Her father had taught her not to judge people on such shallow points: What a man wore or owned had nothing to do with his heart and character.

Neither had realized the loneliness each had lived with for such a long time until the loneliness was interrupted by genuine affection.

He was suffering, and in a way, he could manage that; but he had caused others to suffer, and he did not know why he had to live now and recall the series of terrible choices that had not looked so terrible at the time. Was that how it was for most people?

She could not see his humanity, and Noa realized that this was what he wanted most of all: to be seen as human.

that a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.

For this was love, wasn't it? To have someone clean up after you, to think about you when you were sick, to not walk away when there was nothing to be gained for the labor required.

to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.

Listen, if people don't like you, it's not always your fault. My brother told me that.

that a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that

Etsuko grew silent, utterly transfixed by the realization that how she saw herself was actually how her children saw her, too. They thought she was a monster.