Quotes About Empathetic

Think in terms of what's good for the other person and success will seek you out.

We learn in friendship to look with the eyes of another person, to listen with her ears, and to feel with her heart.

What we do unto others, we do unto ourselves.

you need to put aside your own selfish motives and consider other people for a change.

When they got the results, they were clear. The more novels you read, the better you were at reading other people's emotions. It was a huge effect. This wasn't just a sign that you were better educated—because reading nonfiction books, by contrast, had no effect on your empathy.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

His chest was heaving. He was on the edge of tears. "You've never tried to see things my way. You don't have any understanding what it's like being me.

I would be happy if I were Jesus. I'd like to fix everyone else's problems more than my own.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her...she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.

His growing lack of concern for the others hardly surprised him, whereas previously he had prided himself on being considerate.

When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.

I'm confident, a winner, a joker and someone who will help anyone.

I'm more likely to give you a cuddle than a punch in the face. I have a soft side, especially with my girlfriend. I send her flowers and use my culinary skills to pull off romantic meals. I do great Thai dishes.

Let me seek to understand rather than to be understood. Where there is despair, let me offer hope.

Always solicit and strive to understand perspectives other than your own.

To put oneself in the position of others is an act of compassionate imagination freed from self-concern.

It is impossible to truly understand another without making room for that person within yourself.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon.