Quotes About Empathy

You're a big sister?' I was shocked. She seemed so good-natured and compassionate.

When we were upset as little girls, Dad used to say, "Let's go to the window and see if we see anyone as unhappy as we are." And he would lead us to the window, where we'd watch people pass by in the street until we cheered up.

You don't need cry for others its worthless.

Writers step into their subject's shoes so readers can walk in them.

Rick's dream, though he seldom described it as such, was to someday tell a story so good that the people who heard it simply wouldn't want to kill wolves anymore.

When Milton met Beethoven he said 'I've been told that you cannot hear.' And that was true, but Beethoven read Milton's lips and understood so he nodded his head 'yes.' Unfortunately Milton was blind so he didn't see the head nod and patiently awaited a response until he starved.

I listen to Alicia practice a speech for class, and I don't look at the clock even once. In fact, for the next week, I take my time with

Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

However, there is room in its shadow for everyone who ever has, does or ever will live.

And when we gather with our fellow believers, confessing our sins, hearing each other's stories, sharing each other's heartbreaks—then, most of all, Jesus is here.

The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.

Only remember, if you don't find what you need... in this life it's permissible to forgive oneself too.

Hurting people, hurt people.

The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.

The job in getting people to fight and have faith is in making them believe in what life has made them feel, making them feel that their feelings are as good as others'.

The way to be gay is to make other people gay," Miss Lonelyhearts said. "Sleep with me and I'll be one gay dog.

He sees that the majority of letters are profoundly humble pleas fpr moral and spiritual advixe, that they are inarticulate expressions of genuine suffering. He also discovers that his correspondents take him seriously. For the first time in his life, he is forced to examine the values by which he lives. This examinatin shows him that he is the victim of the joke and not the perpetator.

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

Chase's ability to adjust his manner of leadership to the needs of his men begs comparison to one of the greatest and most revered leaders of all time, Sir Ernest Shackleton.