Quotes About Empathetic

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

Train thyself to pay careful attention to what is being said by another and as far as possible enter into his soul.

Those who have been in trouble themselves are alert to it in others

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

When someone is upset, it's not a good time to bring up your own problems.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Must I keep thinking about those other people, whatever I am doing? And if I want to laugh about something, should I stop myself quickly and feel ashamed that I am cheerful? Ought I then to cry the whole day long? No, that I can't do. Besides, in time this gloom will wear off.

He was happy for other people's success.

I'm a little sadder for all of it, and a little meaner and a little more conscientious as well.

If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Don't judge a person till you've walked a mile in his shoes.

The religion of the extraterrestrial father god ruptures humanity's empathetic bond with the earth, Sophia embodied, yet it is that same religion that have given humanity in the Western world its historical and spiritual identity.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

The pain in him might have been my own.

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.

when the words we speak or write come from inner experience and are heartfelt, they are always imbued with "trembling for the welfare of beings.

Mahatma is one whose soul doesn't rest in peace while there are tears even in a single eye.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.