Quotes About Empathy

For it is only in other people's gaze that we see ourselves, isn't it?

it is not always that we want friends to be so reasonable and rational about things. Sometimes we want people we like to agree with us, to say yes, you have been hard done by, regardless.

Learn the luxury of doing good

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

We are not to judge of the feelings of others by what we might feel if in their place. However dark the habitation of the mole to our eyes, yet the animal itself finds the apartment sufficiently lightsome.

Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at the bottom.

Don't ask questions. 2. Learn from them as the experts on their disability. 3. Always agree with everything they say, never interrupting them.

Then the boy realised,the penguin wasn't lost,he was just lonely.

There are only three words you need to live by, son: respect, consideration and tolerance.

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person's eyes.

To fail is not tragic. To be human, is.

No person should ever have to witness so much death,

You transcend your own self through acting out someone else's life.

I want to change the world and I used to think I needed to do some big, significant thing. More recently I see this can be accomplished one relationship at a time.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.

The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.

The trouble with prejudice is, there's usually a reason for it,' but she now knew better than to say this to Guy.

People on the left are always asking me how I get people not on the left to talk to me and I always think it's such an odd question, because the assumption is that there must be some magic trick involved. The trick is I don't lie about my intentions or my thinking, which I consider basic respect I'd pay to anybody in any context, and in return people tend to offer me the basic respect of talking to me like a human being.

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

We have to learn about love before we can learn about hate—otherwise everything goes to hell.

what is a compassionate heart? He tells us: 'It is a heart that burns for all creation, for the birds, for the beasts, for the devils, for every creature. When he thinks about them, when he looks at them, his eyes fill with tears.