Quotes About Empathy

Kierkegaard's advice. He suggested that we become subjective toward others and objective toward ourselves. That is, when we judge the actions of others, we should put ourselves in their place, trying to understand how they see themselves and their world. And when we judge ourselves, we should see ourselves as others see us, overcoming the ease with which we find extenuating circumstances for ourselves.

everyone wants insight into others, few people are as willing to look so intently at themselves.

obviously someone will! The issue is rather, will the most sympathetic person get there first?

Harry is a black man, and I'm a white man. We obviously come from different backgrounds, but we stand together on this stage as brothers. And as a brother, I must say these race riots are terrible. It's awful how stores are being looted. The burning, the rioting, the stealing. But if, God forbid, it does happen again—and I pray it doesn't—all I can say is, 'Harry, I could use a couch and a couple of end tables.

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other. Chuy goes inside. Keller sits outside on a bench and waits. The words of the psalm come back to him— "Be still and know that I am God." There is nothing to do but be still.

We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other.

There are no humanitarians in cages

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

We must design for the way people behave, not for how we would wish them to behave.

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.

There is nothing to facing your own fears. Confronting OTHER PEOPLE'S fears of YOU... that's the challenge and test of character!

Living is more important than acceptance - acceptance is not as important as understanding. - Donald Allen Kirch

To forgive does not mean we condone the misdeeds of another. We can dedicate ourselves to making sure they never happen again. But without forgiveness the world can never be released from the sorrows of the past…. Forgiveness is a way to move on.

Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote in a letter, "It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters…I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit."22

There are enough critical voices in this world; you don't have to be one of them.

without forgiveness the world can never be released from the sorrows of the past….

Relationships are like powerful moods that people share.

I certainly dont write to exclude anyone.

If I'd never found any other reason to advocate pacifism, this would be it; it is so much easier on the nerves not to perpetually be circling your fellow man, hand warily on the hilt of your knife.

Are you past pity? If you have consciousness now, if I something I can call "you" has something like "consciousness," I doubt you remember the last days. I play them over and over: I lift your wasted body onto the commode, your arms looped around my neck, aiming your bony bottom so that it will not bruise on a rail. Faintly you repeat, "Momma, Momma.

Poem to Be Read at 3:00 A.M. by Donald Justice Excepting the diner On the outskirts The town of Ladora at 3 A.M. Was dark but For my headlights And up in One second-story room A single light Where someone Was sick or Perhaps reading As I drove past At seventy Not thinking This poem Is for whoever Had the light on

People who judge others tell more about Who They Are, than Who They Judge.