Quotes About Empathy

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

An alone man is always badly accompanied.

Mensen kunnen helpen, binnen een rechtstreeks contact, is een van de zaken die ons het meest gelukkig maken. Zorg voor onszelf loopt via zorg voor de ander, bij uitbreiding, via zorg voor de gemeenschap.

Zelfkennis en zelfzorg. Knellende schoenen geven blaren, wandelen wordt hinken, hinken wordt strompelen. Wil ik opnieuw stevig in mijn schoenen staan, dan moet ik mijn voeten serieus nemen. Waarom heb ik blaren, hoe krijg ik die weg? Welk schoeisel past er bij mijn voeten? Welke schoenen wil ik voor welke gelegenheid? Koop ik schoenen voor mijn voeten of voor de ogen van de buitenwereld? Of voor de ogen van één iemand in de buitenwereld?

Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!

When you start treating people like people, they become people.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

To bear ill-feelings torwards someone else is more damaging to the bearer than the recipient. For your own sake forgive quickly and freely.

[You need] eight hugs a day. You'll be happier and the world will be a better place.

Oxytocin connects us to other people; oxytocin makes us feel what other people feel. And it's easy to cause people's brains to release oxytocin. Let me show you. Come here. Give me a hug.

Gradually, we have become each other's weather.

Tests and exams do not determine who is in the right standing. Tests and exams only determine who is left standing. However even if you are knocked down you can still rise again. How far you go in life does not depend on tests and exams but on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the old, sympathetic and tolerant with others who are not as strong as yourself.

Putting our expectations on others is an exercise in pressure and disappointment. Why not accept people just as they are? That's love.

Talking to others who understand what you're going through can help.

Not bad. Human. You've really got to stop seeing things as all bad or all good. And you've got to learn that just because someone tells you something that you don't want to hear, doesn't mean that person's out to get you.

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening so you might as well.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

I imagine there's a timid animal inside me...When it's afraid, I feel it tremble. It can't hear. It only knows the fear it feels. It doesn't have memory or an idea of the future. It lives in the present—the right now—and I try to remember it is only a part of myself, a small frightened thing I can pity. When I'm able to do that, something happens. The animal grows less afraid.

She'd been noticing the feet of colored people ever since she'd come south. "They've been pressed down to the earth so hard," she said. "And the weight of what they carry tortures their feet.

I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in."—Neil Gaiman

Naivety can be a terrible thing. Jesus wept.

Then the king will say to those on his right, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me." (Mt 25:34–36)