Quotes About Empathetic

For loving-kindness to be real, for it to have moral value, he observed, it must be practiced with consideration "of the other's distress alone".

I am tough but I have a soft side.

I like to think I'm multi-faceted. Actually, my favorite roles are roles like in 'Far from Heaven.' Y'know. Soft people. Loving people.

We would never do anything for the sole purpose of bumming people out or upsetting people.

I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.

Examine your heart often to see if it is such toward your neighbor as you would like his to be toward you were you in his place. This is the touchstone of true reason.

If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.

Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself

I think, for a lot of people, men or women, it's easy to have things not affect you because, it doesn't affect you. So to be a better ally, you have to look at it as if it's someone you know instead of this abstract person you've never met.

Walk a mile in my shoes, then come tell me how to live my life.

O how unconcernedly do many look on the miseries of others, how far are they from taking a lesson to themselves therefrom!

Hmm…Allen's such a good boy. He hasn't said a word about me.

He started to feel for himself, which is the only way to start feeling for others. (24)

For to the extent that we act toward others as we feel we might, we open ourselves to their inner reality, and their needs and aspirations seem so important to us as our own. We hope their hopes will be fulfilled and need to see their needs satisfied. Their happiness makes us happy, and we are pained to see them hurt. We resonate with them and delight in their prosperity.

I am the oppressor of the person I condemn, not his friend and fellow-sufferer.

I think you're the sort of person who finds money on the ground and waves it in the air and asks if anyone has lost it. I think you cry in movies that aren't even sad because you have a soft heart, though you don't let it show. I think you do things that scare you, and that makes you braver than those adrenaline junkies who bungee-jump off bridges.

That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

the feeling of distress is the root of benevolence, therefore a benevolent man is ever mindful of those who are suffering and in distress.

Most important quality in the man of your dreams? No, my dears, it isn't great hair. Or even killer abs. In my book, it's selflessness. Give me a man who puts others before himself, and that's a man I'll keep.

nadie le importan los problemas ajenos y que los dolores callados acaban por diluirse.

a nadie le importan los problemas ajenos y que los dolores callados acaban por diluirse.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.