Quotes About Empathy

A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? The beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes. I am present only for you. I have forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I have become a scholar. I have lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself

Nobody could fathom the suffering the troubles had brought people, and all the terrible things that had happened.

remember that a person might do bad things ut that that didn't mean they were a bad person

Everything we suffer has been suffered before, everything that gives us joy has been enjoyed before. Nothing is new: but that doesn't make it any easier to suffer.

The great (American-definition) liberal Lionel Trilling wrote in 1948 that "we must be aware of the dangers that lie in our most generous wishes," because "when once we have made our fellowmen the objects of our enlightened interest [we] go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion."18 Every mother knows the dangers. And when she loves the beloved for the beloved's own sake, she resists them.

Looking at someone in a negative way is like looking through a mirror

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else's face.

From one bell all the bells toll.

He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

Conversation, friendship, laughter, and understanding are my favorite sports

I believe doctors rarely have any idea how helpless patients can be when their brains are jumbled by fear, how unable they are to respond or take information in.

I sat at the table and listened to the women swap stories about the people in our town.They were able to find so much to laugh about; I wondered who was sitting at a table somewhere laughing at us.

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.

Friends are forever ,we never have enemies forever!!

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.

Those truly linked don't need correspondence, When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others