Quotes About Empathy

Holding or containing has cognitive and affective components and includes a basic attitude of concern for oneself and the patient and a psychological openness to the unknown in others as well as in oneself.

In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.

To understand a man is really to be that man.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

It was passing strange, I thought, that these two grave strong men should be so gentle over a creature who never cared how she wounded, mocked, flouted, or harmed either of them, to please her sport or charm her vanity

Nay—when will you do so much as remember that the coward who tortures an animal would murder a human being if he were not afraid of the gallows? When will you see that to teach the hand of a child to stretch out and smother the butterfly, is to teach that hand, when a man's, to steal out and strangle an enemy?

And of how he would hang the throat of Patrasche with a collar of gold, and place him on his right hand, and say to the people, "This was once my only friend

For the most part people are cruel, cruel if only from lack of thought.

Will you take me home with you ?" I ventured to ask, emboldened by his honest kind eyes. "I have no home," ho said mournfully, "otherwise I would. I sleep under bridge-arches, or doorways, or anywhere I can; where I am not hunted away" "But that must be very miserable?" "Yes, it is miserable. But there are tens of thousands of human creatures that do*the same. I must not complain.

I never judge people; seemingly bad actions may have good motives, good ones may spring from base and selfish ends.

Once again alone, my grief was unrestrained; so much so that the woman of the house came and hammered at the door and swore at me for a "dratted yelping beast," which only made my cries the louder. As several hours went on, however, and my solitude remained unbroken, I cried myself so hoarse that I was unable to emit any sort of sound at last; and thought I might as well vary my imprisonment by looking out of the casement.

Nothing is more attractive than being like Jesus

Algunas veces deseo que los amigos pudieran ser liberados de ciertos defectos por su bien, pero son esos mismos defectos, mezclados con sus mejores cualidades los que componen la personalidad completa de aquellos a los que amamos.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

If you would be loved, be lovable

True understanding is unattainable without both love and detachment,

Understanding what another human being says to us is always a matter of translation.

To give another person the benefit of the doubt was about as difficult an everyday task as anyone faced.

Only monsters would harm a cat.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.