Quotes About Empathy

Whoever touches the body of a patient, touches the body of Christ.

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Mum always said that you couldn't beat a good woman friend and that everyone should have atleast one. Do you remember that she always said there was two kinds of women? Men's women and women's women? And if you knew what was good for you, you'd be a woman's woman and you'd never be lonely. Said it was like belonging to a bloody great club. She wasn't wrong, neither.

I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.

Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Los Buendía no eran capaces de amar, y ahí está el secreto de su soledad, de su frustración. La soledad, para mí, es lo contrario de la solidaridad

Un poco de buena compañía, un poco de comprensión, inclusive un poco de amor es todo cuanto necesitan, y suelen agradecerlo. Un poco de todo nada más, por supuesto, porque su soledad es insaciable

Un amigo que no entiende, simplemente, no es tan bueno como uno creía

It is a long time since I have had a letter from you. "There is nothing to write about," you say: well then write and let me know just this, that "there is nothing to write about," or tell me in the good old style, If you are well that's right, I am quite well. This will do for me, for it implies everything. You think I am joking? Let me assure you I am in sober earnest. Do let me know how you are; for I cannot remain ignorant any longer without growing exceedingly anxious about you. Farewell.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.

Another Spartan, when he saw men sitting on stools in a lavatory, declared: "May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.