Quotes About Empathy

The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

the love of ones country is a slended thing but why should love stop at the border.

Love for one's country is great but why should that love stop at that border?

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

the only way to stop the violence and abuse that surrounds us is to talk about it.

Ele [Che] nunca deixou um prisioneiro sem cuidados, mas lhe deram apenas uma aspirina para curar um tiro.

My brothers, my brother-in-laws, they're always telling me what a goodhearted guy I am. Well, you don't get goodhearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough you get to be a real professor of pain. I know exactly how you feel. And I also want you to know I'm having a very good time with you now and really enjoying myself. So you see, you're not such a dog as you think

Tell her everything you're scared about. Everybody's scared, Arnold. Everybody's got things in them they're ashamed of. That's what a wife's for. To make you feel you don't have to be ashamed of yourself. Then she tells you what makes her feel miserable.... Then, that's your job. It's your job to make her feel she's not as bad as everybody makes her think she is.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

Please guide all beings from this swamp of cyclic existence!

Don't regard any sentient being as your enemy: to do so is only your mind's delusion. (p. 29)

So how does a couple make communication work for them? We believe the most important communication skill a couple can develop is to learn to take turns.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

Helpful Reminders for Fathers and Other Birth Companions

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

We're all in this together. And every time we judge or think anything less than charitable about anyone, we crucify ourselves. We inflict self-pain.

I am because we are.

I want to thank every single one of you for choosing to dance instead of fight, for choosing to love instead of judge, for choosing to open your heart instead of running away from what is now truly possible.

3.   We're all in this together. If we take care of one another and go the extra mile to appreciate and play together, we all gain—each one of us is lifted up. Sure, we could walk alone to the finish line. But the real joy comes from tackling the journey together, from raising our voices in one mighty, unified wahoo!

We call such a limited number of relationships love in our lives, but there is always love around us—it's as ubiquitous as oxygen.

Several times in my life, I've sat with women, friends of mine, who reveal, sometimes shyly, sometimes proudly, bruises of one kind or another, and I know I've said, "If it happens one time, leave him," I've said, "It doesn't matter how much you love him. Leave him if it happens one time." And I've said it with utter confidence, as if I knew what the hell I was talking about, as if violence was something that could be easily defined.