Quotes About Empathy

My advice is to make a point of apologizing to your child about something at least twice a month. Why twice a month? I don't know. It sounds about right to me. (Almost all the specific advice in parenting books is similarly arbitrary. At least I admit it.)

The failure to adopt other people's points of view, to take an imaginative leap out of oneself, is one way to account for much of the behavior we find, troublesome, from littering to murder. (Kafka once referred to war as "a monstrous failure of imagination.") Perspective taking helps us at once to see others as fundamentally similar to ourselves despite superficial differences (in that we share a common humanity)

Hombre pequeñito que jaula me das. Digo pequeñito porque no me entiendes, ni me entenderás. Tampoco te entiendo, pero mientras tanto ábreme la jaula que quiero escapar. Hombre pequeñito, te amé media hora, no me pidas más.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow man who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring

Our whole way of living inhibits that necessary intimate contact with our fellow men, which is essential for the development of the science and art of knowing human nature. Since we do not find sufficient contact with our fellow men, we become their enemies. Our behavior towards them is often mistaken, and our judgments frequently false, simply because we do not adequately understand human nature.

Ich werde es hoffentlich stets ablehnen, Menschen überzeugen zu wollen. Man kann nur versuchen, ihnen die Möglichkeiten zu zeigen, aus denen sie wählen können. Schon das ist anmaßend genug, denn wer kennt die Möglichkeiten, die der andere hat? Der andere ist nicht nur der Mitmensch, sondern auch der ganz andere, den man niemals erkennen kann. Außer. man liebte ihn.

A friend is a person who likes you for what you are, in spite of all your faults, all your shortcomings.

The poet, no doubt, has to learn by suffering, but having learnt, he has then, in my opinion, to help others not to be miserable, but to be happy.

We'll talk without listening to each other that is the best way to get along.

A mulher que quer rejeitar responde apenas não. A mulher que explica quer que a convençam.

Partout où j'ai voulu dormir, Partout où j'ai voulu mourir, Partout où j'ai touché la terre, Sur ma route est venu s'asseoir Un malheureux vêtu de noir, Qui me ressemblait comme un frère.

Try walking a mile in your enemy's shoes. You'll be a mile away and you'll have his shoes.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter." - Alfred Eisenstaedt

first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye" (Matt. 7:5).

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Ephesians 4:32 NIV

Remember Matthew 5:25 ("Make friends quickly with your opponent") and Matthew 5:44 ("Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you").

The goal of conflict resolution is to cultivate unity and peace, not to win or prove you are right.

Love your enemies. Pray for those who treat you badly (Luke 6:27–28).

Be kind and tenderhearted to one another (Eph. 4:32).

Be quick to forgive (Matt. 18:21–35).

Incumbent Congresswoman Bustos has proven during her time in Washington that she doesn't understand or feel the pain of middle class families. We need a true representative fighting for us in Washington, and incumbent Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has refused to act.