Quotes About Empathy

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

Boy Scout is not merely to give you fun and adventure but that, like the backwoodsmen, explorers, and frontiersmen whom you are following, you will be fitting yourself to help your country and to be of service to other people who may be in need of help. That is what the best men are out to do.

Kdyby rybá? napichoval na há?ek jako návnadu n?co, co chutná jemu, asi by na to moc ryb nechytil. Proto užívá jako návnadu to, co chutná rybám. S chlapci je to stejné. Kdybyste jim kázali o tom, co sami považujete za po- vznášející, nechytili byste je.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

But the true emperor, Luke insists, is not the one who feeds himself but who is willing to offer his life as food for the other. At the climax of his life, this child, come of age, would say to his friends, "This is my body, which will be given for you' do this in memory of me" (Lk 22:19).

scapegoaters, but rather on the side of the scapegoated victim.

The successful evangelist does not stand aloof from the experience of sinners, passing easy judgment on them, praying for them from a distance; on the contrary, she loves them so much that she joins them and deigns to walk in their shoes and feel the texture of their experience.

Victor Hugo said it well. 'To understand all is to forgive all.

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child — and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.