Quotes About Empathy

You know how it is when someone wants to complain; all the good counsel in the world is nothing to one drop of their precious misery, and everything you suggest is somehow impossible.

Presuming that a nonspeaking child has nothing to say is like presuming that an adult without a car has nowhere to go.

If you're treading quicksand in the swamp of what-might- have-been, you can be sure that's the message your child gets. You're a rare person if being constantly reminded of your shortcomings spurs you to improve. For the rest of us, it's a self-esteem squasher. Time to grab for that overhead vine and realize that only a pencil dot separates "bitter" and "better.

It demands that we give voice to their thoughts and feelings, even when their voices are nonverbal.

In a widely read New York Times article in December 2004, Jack Thomas, a tenth grader with Asperger's syndrome, got the world's attention by stating, "We don't have a disease, so we can't be cured. This is just the way we are.

When the words dance privately for you, it is possible to feel not alone.

I had thought that I knew her affliction and not merely the fact of it. It was no stranger to me. I understood it emotionally, empathetically. But I had only ever touched down at its airport. She was a citizen of its vast interior.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit or robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern all. But

Beware how you pass judgment on your superiors," he said mildly, "at least until you know how to put yourself in their place and see from their view.

Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay.

You have not lived here among us. She did. You are English, she was Welsh, she knew us, and was never so moved against us that she withdrew or complained. We know she is there, no need to exclaim or make any great outcry. If we have needs, she knows it, and never asks that we should come with prayers and tears, knocking our knees on the ground before her. If she grudged a few brambles and weeds, she would have found a means to tell us. Us, not some distant Benedictine house in England!

Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit or robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern all.

Correction without connection yields rejection.

If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind.

Shackleton decided to spare Greenstreet's team of year-old puppies "for the present

Be near me when my light is low.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Qu'importe de quoi parlent les lévres, lorsqu´e on écoute les coeurs se répondre,

In this sense, God is the great companion – the fellow-sufferer who understands.

For the worst is this after all; if they knew me, not a soul upon earth would pity me.

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Socialize with people in such a manner that when you die, they should weep for you, and as long as you live, they should long for your company.

To render relief to the distressed and to help the oppressed make amends for great sins.