Quotes About Empathy

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.

When you read you must get out of your own skin and into the skin of the people you are reading about, that is the only way to enjoy i

Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.

I was never mean to him, but I participated heartily when the guys teased him.

Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How can we serve you?

The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Time is the one thing that patients need most from their doctors--time to be heard, time to have things explained, time to reassured, time to be introduced by the doctor personally to specialists or other attendants whose very existence seems to reflect something new and threatening. yet the one thing that too many doctors find most difficult to command or manage is time.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being.

The way a book is read- which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

So long as men slaughter animals,' the master said, 'they won't stop killing each other.'1 [KONOPI?TE]

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

We realize how dangerous and painful life is if we don't open up. We know we have to do it. And as soon as we start to try, we realize immediately that there is no way that we could ever do this alone, because opening up means opening to what's around us, to others, to the world, and to our radical connectedness.

We now see that the only way that we could love ourselves is by loving others, and the only way that we could truly love others is to love ourselves. The difference between self-love and love of others is very small, once we really understand.

Real empathy requires that we develop the capacity to put our own concerns aside long enough to notice what someone else is going through internally, without reference to ourselves.

Compassion is sympathy for others specifically in the case of their suffering. Although it is uncomfortable, we are willing to feel the suffering of others and to do something about it when we can,