Quotes About Empathy

Don't worry about me. Go and enjoy yourself. I'll stay here and be miserable.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

I can't understand these student fellows. They don't want to study. They brandish a red flag, and then shoot themselves. They don't want to understand what their parents must feel.

When thy neighbours house is on fire, by its light thou mayest see thine own danger,

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

Max said little. His essential quality was always to say little, but by powerful empathy for writers and for books to draw out of them what they had it in them to say and to write.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.

Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem.

And really, it wasn't much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn't share them with somebody.

And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time." "Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you.

His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.

He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.

James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.

And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.

And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

Knorretje zei: "Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel, Poeh" en Poeh zei: "Zo denk ik er ook over, Knor" en Knorretje zei: "Maar aan de andere kant, moet je wel bedenken" en Poeh zei: "Zo is het Knor, daar had ik even niet aan gedacht.

it wasn't much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn't share them with somebody.

Piglet had got up early that morning to pick himself a bunch of violets; and when he had picked them and put them in a pot in the middle of his house, it suddenly came over him that nobody had ever picked Eeyore a bunch of violets, and the more he thought of this, the more he thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.