Quotes About Empathy

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

Look, people are attracted to other people for all sorts of reasons, and there's no right or wrong way to be attracted.

He exaggerates his golf scores and his handicap for the same reason he exaggerates everything. He has to. He exhibits all the traits of a narcissistic personality disorder. People with his disorder have no conscience about it. He has no sense of morality about things. He lacks empathy towards others. He's a very ill man. He doesn't get that other people have rights and feelings. Other people just don't matter to him.

Depression is a big fucked-up monster. Everyone gets a turn, whether or not they want to own up to it. It's a hard fight that fucks you top to bottom. Drains you hollow. And when you're finally rid of it, there's something about having overcome it that robs you of compassion.

To resist the depths of the world's sorrow, the truth of one's heart must be honored.

Go ahead, kill me! But live with this: All those people die! For the rest of your life, somewhere behind the feeds, that human part of you hiding down deep will always wonder how much pain you could have prevented if you hadn't been so weak!

Love passionately bears with others for as long as patience is needed; love doesn't demand others to be like itself, but is so focused on the needs of others that it bends over backwards to become what others need it to be; love is not ambitious, self-centered, or so consumed with itself that it never thinks of the needs or desires that others possess.…

He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!

It's useless to lecture a human.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

How many people you bless is how you measure success

Self-consciousness kills communication.

I believe if you're going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone.

If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.

Feed the hungry and you're a saint, ask why they are hungry and you're a communist.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

To me, understanding people and their lives is what travel is about, no matter where you go.

It's not about you.

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.