Quotes About Empathy

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human 'wisdom'...and the other twenty percent isn't very important.

The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

Robert A. Heinlein

the word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.

Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically.

Robert A. Heinlein

I pity the poverty of your wealth.

I had no sympathy for him and still haven't. That old saw about "To understand all is to forgive all" is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.

The more you love, the more you can love—and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free of any possibility of wrongdoing—and you don't have to go home in the cold. But it's lonely.

Forgiveness and thanks go hand in hand.

Nevertheless, once you pick up a stray cat and feed it, you cannot abandon it. Self-love forbids it. The cat's welfare becomes essential to your own peace of mind—even when it's a bloody nuisance not to break faith with the cat.

Nobody paid attention; they walked around or stepped over – except one woman carrying a baby, who stopped, kicked him carefully in face, then went down ramp.

Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom.

When did you ever worry about offending me?' 'Always, Man, once I understood that you could be offended.

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

An Englishman and an Arab can learn to think each other's thoughts, in the other's language.

You don't pay back, you pay forward.

Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You

a friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.

He knew vaguely that he did not want the nurse to die at that moment, even though it was certainly its right and possibly its obligation to do so.

One damn sure thing!—he wasn't going to let them be rough with that Smith lad. He was a nuisance, granted, but he was a nice lad and rather appealing in a helpless, half-witted way.

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom . . . and the other twenty percent isn't very important.

Either way, I have no wish to disturb a man sleeping in a gutter; I assume until proved otherwise that he belongs there.