Quotes About Empathy

By behaving honorably, even to people who may not deserve it, he believes you can influence them to behave more honorably than they otherwise would. This

That was the moment when I understood more clearly than ever before that the liberation struggle was not so much about liberating blacks from bondage, it was about liberating white people from fear.

He was the only man I knew who could roll his eyes over the telephone.

After nineteen years, he still needed explanations from me. If being willing to speak at length into an unresponsive void isn't one of the cornerstones of a rich relationship and enduring love, what is?

Three persons is the necessary minimum for unselfish love betweenpersons of some kind.

In order to love people usefully you need to be focused on them and not yourself.

we all need reassurance and encouragement. We're human, and that's how we work

The better you understand the beliefs, actions, desires, and wants of others, the more likely you are to make the right response, alter your own thinking where necessary and generally be successful.

So do yourself a favour. Go away and hide somewhere while you lick your wounds. Enjoy your friends and your family, and wait until you've recovered a bit before you start looking for a new partner. And when you do, try to pick someone whose scars are relatively well-healed too – because of course this works the other way round as well. That way you can both see each other as you really are, and start your relationship the way you want to continue it.

is writing that does what only literature can do: transport you to another time and place and acquaint you with emotions and sensations that you otherwise would never feel.

Intellectual empathy requires us to think within the viewpoints of others, especially those we think are wrong.

We were taught to be God-fearing," my mother said. "One who loves does not brandish fear or require it.

A high school English teacher who has been teaching for thirty years recently said to me, "My students today are nice and they're smart, but they can't engage suffering in any way. I try to teach them King Lear, or 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' and they just don't want to think about real pain.

It came to me pretty suddenly one day that parenting is a moral task," a Chicago parent starkly put it, "that the principle of being a mother of a child who is a good person is more important than how much my kids like me or how happy they are in the moment. If my kids were going to be good people, I realized that I couldn't go to them all the time if they cried or always be a fixer or problem solver, that I had to make real demands on them.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

In my kind world the dead were out of range And I could not forgive the sad or strange In beast or man.

One must not content oneself with small demands but must rise to the thought that all living creatures have to be redeemed. One must not be trivial and irresponsible in heart, but must strive to make deeds prove one's words.

Pour vous faire aimer, demandez un service.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

How many Christians of the free world visit communist countries and other nations where Christians are persecuted but never ask permission to visit a jail and encourage their brothers and sisters in pain?

God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love

You see? I don't know what 'mature' means, either, and you could talk all night and I still wouldn't know. It's all just words to me, Frank. I watch you talking and I think: Isn't that amazing? He really does think that way; these words really do mean something to him. Sometimes it seems I've been watching people talk and thinking that all my life. And maybe it means there's something awful the matter with me, but it's true.