Quotes About Empathy

one teenage girl who, during a lucid dream, "entered the body" of a boy whose attention she had been soliciting in vain. Once inside her love object's "body," she began to see things from his point of view. "I understood why he had been so reserved with me," she reported, "and I realized that he would never return my feelings." As a result, the girl was able to end a fruitless and disheartening infatuation.

Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.

Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Tenderness is not like money: the more you give to one, the more you have for others.

Tedn't law. Tedn't right. Tedn't just. Tedn't sense. Tedn't friendly.

There was some people hurt far worst than I was in that hospital, let me tell you. Poor old boys with arms and legs and hands and who knows what else missing. Boys what had been shot in their stomach and chests and faces. At night the place sound like a torture chamber - them fellers be howling and crying and calling for their mamas.

I shrug my shoulders an nod my head, but somethin down in me sinkin fast. I am jus a po ole idiot, an now I have got the whole human race to look after.

I know that bein a idiot an all, I ain't sposed to have no philosophy of my own, but maybe it's just because nobody never took the time to talk to me bout it.

Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

Manchmal sag' ich mir: dein Schicksal ist einzig; preise die übrigen glücklich—so ist noch keiner gequält worden.—dann lese ich einen Dichter der Vorzeit, und es ist mir, als säh' ich in mein eignes Herz. Ich habe so viel auszustehen! Ach, sind denn Menschen vor mir schon so elend gewesen?

Do not judge lest you be judged yourselves. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it shall be measured to you." (Matthew 7:1-2) The real danger in judging others lies in what it does to us. We begin to believe that the way we do things is right and proper. From there it's an easy slide to thinking of our way as being the only way. One of the greatest lessons the saints have to teach us is to mind our own business.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

No nation is fit to set in judgment upon any other nation

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.