Quotes About Empathy

You are most loving, patient, kind, and gracious when you are aware that there is no truth that you could give to another that you don't desperately need yourself.

Jack asked himself: Would he have wanted to live out his life as a placid, contented, lobotomized Ferdinand the Bull? No. Then, what right did he have to inflict such a fate on anybody?

I don't have any ill will toward anybody, except for maybe the people...yeah, the people.

My goal in life is to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.

In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.

Emotions change how we see the world and how we interpret the actions of others. We do not seek to challenge why we are feeling a particular emotion; instead, we seek to confirm it.

People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people's actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.

Lying is such a central characteristic of life that better understanding of it is relevant to almost all human affairs.

to be loyal to Christ, one must be vulnerable to others.

If Christians, in other words, only talk and never listen, they're not very good Christians.

By love alone is hatred dispelled." Jesus would add: a love that must be ready to die rather than hate. Out of such love, and out of such death that this love can require, will hatred be dispelled. Hearts will be changed. And so will our world.

In real interreligious dialogue, heart speaks to heart. Only so can persons from differing traditions really "hear" each other.

Only with the peace that comes with such mindfulness will we be able to respond in a way that brings forth peace for the event or person or feeling we are dealing with.

When our opposition to those we have judged to be the oppressors is so animated by wisdom and compassion, our opposition to what they are doing will always contain an option for their wellbeing. So a preferential option for the poor is also always part of an option for the oppressors. We are also seeking to promote the wellbeing of the oppressors, their happiness, their peace.

In opposing them, we wish to help them realize their essential goodness. To oppose oppressors is to embrace oppressors.

We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

the basis of our preferential option for the poor to say: I accompany them not because they are all good, or because I am all good, but because God is good.

Statistics or graphs,'" are not optimal to understand the 'experience of suffering.'" (qtd in Sutton 11)

Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

To study foreign affairs without putting ourselves into others' shoes is to deal in illusion and to prepare students for a lifelong misunderstanding of our place in the world.

Without her, life for him would be something but half-lived, that to give her up would destroy not one, but two humans who together had found beauties and satisfactions of physical and spiritual relationship not dreamed of by most...

We can only hope we leave behind persons whose lives are better for our having lived.

All I want to shout is 'Moaty, it's Gazza!', and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say, 'Why don't you just put the gun away, throw it in the river? The police are not going to kill you.