Quotes About Empathy

holy envy," that is, the appreciation of the beliefs and practices of another.2

It's possible these men were afraid. . . . And so the first question that the priest [and] the Levite asked was, 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' . . . But then the Good Samaritan came by, and he reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

to Jesus's Jewish audience as well as to Luke's readers, the idea of a "good Samaritan" would make no more sense than the idea of a "good rapist" or a "good murderer.

Luke gently criticizes people who pray, and pray, but who fail to open the gate, or to see the need at their doorstep.

We are truly blind, we see another man different." "God created us in his image, not different.

If you wish to heal your sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of others. They are looking to you for guidance, help, courage, strength, understanding, and for assurance. Most of all, they are looking to you for love. He smiled.

It is beautiful to capture the soul of another being, isn't it? i nod and add, particularly when it has been a special person. We are talking about friendship, that has its own tenets so we are not talking about romantic/love/sex capture of another soul but the true captivation of another's spirit, which happens between people of the same sex sometimes.

Amigo, yo bien sé lo que hacen los hombres con los vencidos". Y no era más que una frase. Nada más. ¿Qué sé yo de lo que hacen los hombres con los vencidos…? ¿Quiénes son, al fin y al cabo, los vencidos? ¿Me creí acaso, entonces, vencido? No: no lo pensé suiquiera. Yo mantenía mi esperanza.

La gente buena tiene un don para irradiar cariño, para producir campos de fuerza donde poder cobijar a los demás, y en parte gracias a esas personas y a la constancia de sus gestos amables, la humanidad todavía no se ha extinguido.

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

With the right treatment, love, and care the world is a better place.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelingsóadmiration or pity.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

If you have not loved an animal, your soul remains unawakened.

We love truly only those we love even in their weakness and their poverty. To forbear, to forgive, to console, that alone is the science of love.

Até termos amado um animal, parte da nossa alma permanece adormecida.