Quotes About Empathy

Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad, your cat cries.

That sad sinking feeling you get when you don't fit in even with other autistics

Cursing will create a hole in a whole Heart.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn't make us any less worthy than when we didn't feel that way.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

The point of any religion should be this: how to open your heart to love.

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.