Quotes About Empathy

Every profession that attracts people for reasons of the heart is a profession in which people, and the work they do, suffer from losing heart.

My core religious beliefs include this simple article of faith: the God who gave all of us life wants us to do the same for each other.

They should be encouraged to bring all of who they are and what they know into each class. By welcoming the whole student into our classes, unfamiliar aspects of who they are and what they care about suddenly come into view. What are the heartfelt questions they struggle with? Are they too scared to acknowledge the hopes and aspirations they harbor for their lives and for this world?

people may not notes the smallest things. but with out the smallest of things like kindness. we would all know

The average European, whether male or female, is extremely sensitive, always ready to shoulder the blame for the poverty of Africa or Asia, to sorrow over the world's problems, to assume responsibility for them, always ready to ask what Europeans can do for the South rather than asking what the South could do for itself.

Aimer aux yeux des enfants c'est veiller. Veiller le sommeil, apaiser les craintes, consoler les pleurs, soigner les maladies, caresser la peau, la laver, l'essuyer, l'habiller.

Del otro, lo aceptaban todo, incluso lo que no comprendían.

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome PhD

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

What a name – Pyotr Frankis. I wondered who had made it up for him. Pyotr Frankis, Jascha – Slavs all over the place, it would seem. Just like my great-grandmother. I felt for her in my mind about the same way you'd feel for a stray piece of food in your mouth with your tongue, but as usual, I had no sense of her beyond a particularly intense memory.

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

Further, we often make the mistake of treating listening as merely waiting for our turn to talk. While other team members are making their points, we're preparing our rebuttal. It takes practice and discipline to withhold the urge to jump in with our opinion and really concentrate on what the other person is saying.

You're daft,' she said. 'Doan matter what you think of me,' he said generously. 'I'll never think less of you.

A horse doesn't care how much you know, until he knows how much you care.

If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight. Eudora Welty

in the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don't care about them or don't like them.

they don't care how much you know, unless they know how much you care.

I'd bring our big players out to the perimeter and make them run the play like a guard, so they saw the play from that angle as well as their own. When one of our bigs got upset if a guard didn't make a play, I'd say, "Fine. You go play point.

Instead of getting mad or getting even, get creative.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us." WALT DISNEY Katherine

Don't let reading make you arrogant. It can happen-believe me. Maybe you've even met a person or two like this, someone who thinks that being an English literature major or particularly well read puts them above the crowd. Take my advice:even if it's true, don't go there. ... I urge you to read, knowing the words you absorb will come out in your life in ways that inspire, uplift and encourage someone else. Life is meant to be passed on. Read with a servant's heart.

W]e are changed by what we read. Close that book, and you are not the same person anymore. Because of what you just read, your worldview--your understanding, your compassion for others, your ability to engage intelligently with others--has expanded a little. Books help us grow….