Quotes About Empathy

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Who knows what kind of loneliness is more agonizing: the one which befalls man when he casts his glance at the mute cosmos, at its dark spaces and monotonous drama, or the one that besets man exchanging glances with his fellow man in silence?

Those who defend the right to life of the weakest among us must be equally visable in support of the quality of life of the powerless among us: the old and the young, the hungry and the homeless, the undocumented immigrant and the unemployed worker.

We all fight our own wars, wars for which we'll be judged. Some of them we fight in the forests close to home, others in distant jungles or faraway burning deserts. We all fight our own wars, so maybe it's best not to judge, considering it's rare we even know why we fight so savagely.

un romanzo o una poesia sono il prodotto di una reciproca solitudine – quella di uno scrittore e quella di un lettore.

But I didn't care. I just wanted to be close to them and feel their presence. I felt as if I were in there with them, looking out of their eyes, sharing their thoughts.

Never forget, grandchildren, that we must always see all other people as human beings, worthy of respect.

Our ancestors saw what war does to human beings. When we must fight other humans, injure and kill them, we also injure a part of ourselves. Our spirits become sick from contact with the enemy.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

If you really want to help this world, what you really will have to teach is how to live in it.

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

We are all reflexes of the image of the Bodhisattva. The sufferer within us is that divine being.

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

The boy answers, Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt. Indra says, I ask. Teach. (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

The word compassion means literally suffering with. Of course compassion condones suffering in that it recognizes yes, suffering is life.

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!" said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

His idea of seeing the world was to see, not countries, but people; and to see them from as many angles as possible.