Empathy Quotes
Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt...you're a better witness for what's beautiful.
Everything is going to be alright' doesn't mean stubbing your toe won't hurt anymore, but it reinforces that what takes place today, good or bad, is just a small piece of the larger puzzle
The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.
When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?
I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.
The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away, . There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.
By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.
Nowhere in the bible did it say, “Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.
If you’re treating people poorly then you're not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted.
You can unlock spiritual things only from within.
No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.
If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.
Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?
When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?
There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.
If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.
The pain on the inside is what keeps you human, ' she said. 'Never forget that.
The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged.
To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.
...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can'tuntil you do understand.
I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections.
Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.
Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).
The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.
When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.
...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one day be a like sufferer.
God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain.
It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.
A thousand pounds for clothes--when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter!
Reading an author's Biography contributes to an understanding and enjoyment of their work, and gives a richness to the reading experience.
Empathy was written from many male and female points of view because each character reacts differently to the emotional fallout from one binding circumstance
What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.
Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.
the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels like from the inside.
Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else.
The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you “make” the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.
Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.
Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.
By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?