Quotes About Empathy

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend — to tell you you did all you could.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.

There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

It is a lifelong battle to try to love someone through the chinks in their armor.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey."

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.