Quotes About Empathy

In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly "getting together," but they never really got there…For everyone searched his neighbor's eyes for the image of himself, and never saw anything else. Or if he did, he was outraged and terrified.

Evolution is not humane, but we could be.

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look -- these the patient understands.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has

Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.

Siempre es que, realizadas por otros, nuestras mismas acciones parecen más sucias

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Let us try what love will do.

Let us see what love can do.

Kekuatan kita akan berkurang, tetapi cinta bisa bertambah. Dan orang yang memaafkan lebih dahulu adalah yang menang.

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

at last I realized that God would never ask of me that which I know to be psychologically impossible; that the love which He asked was in my will and not meant to be felt as emotion. No. Not at all. He was asking that I act with love; that I do unto others; and that I should do it unto those who repelled me, I believe, was a greater act of love than any other.

MY BROTHER HURTS. I SHARE HIS PAIN. I MEET GOD IN HIM.

you do unto the least of these, my little ones, you do unto Me,' " he paraphrased.

that the love which He asked was in my will and not meant to be felt as emotion. No. Not at all. He was asking that I act with love; that I do unto others; and that I should do it unto those who repelled me, I believe, was a greater act of love than any other.

much for tea time and pleasantries. Who are you? What is it that you want from us? To suffer like you did on the cross? Well, we're doing it.

And inwardly raged at this portion of his being that so frequently rendered him helpless in the face of someone's plea; that he could not control; that lay coiled within him like a length of rope, always ready to fling itself out to rescue at the call of someone else's need. It gave him no peace. Not even in sleep.

Living together is an art.

To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.