Quotes About Empathetic

To be able to imagine the ohter, and the experience of the other was what wisdome was all about; but nobody talked about wisdom very much anymore, nor virtue perhaps because wisdom was nto appreciated in a world of glitz and effect.

She had always believed that people who were nasty or unkind to others were only like that because there was something wrong in their lives, and that people who had something wrong in their lives were not to be despised or hated, but were to be pitied. So

If you knew what is was like to be another person, then how could you possibly do something which would cause pain? The problem, though, was that there seemed to be people in whom that imaginative part was just missing. It could be that they were born that way--with something missing from their brains--or it could be that they became like that because they were never taught by their parents to sympathise with others.

Remember that, she said to herself; remember that in your dealings with others—they may be dying.

My way of knowing is by putting myself in the other's place. Forgiveness gave me the method. I see through your eyes.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

I am a Piscean, and they have a lovingly detached attitude towards life.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.

And he never judges someone else's suffering.

Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.

Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are. I have heard you say 'If I were you, I would do this, or that.' 'I' am never 'you'--and my solutions may not be yours.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

If you have a dog, and you're a person whose moods are constantly changing, there's a moment when you look at the dog, and you feel bad for them because they're attached to you, and so it's funny for the dog to vocalize those things in some ways.

I forget about myself and tend to concentrate too much on others.

Your pain pained me.

I've always been sensitive to the pain of others, always tried to feel a part of everyone else's suffering.

But I think how we treat any one person is how we treat the world

This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.

Listen, identify withe the victims and you become one yourself. Victims make lousy litigators.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Success and all good things in life, start with a genuine concern for others.