To care means first of all to empty our own cup and to allow the other to come close to us. It means to take away the many barriers which prevent us from entering into communion with the other. When w...
It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; and I hope I shall have a chance, I do! Things have got to a pretty pass, if a woman can't give a wa...
Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.
seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
Those who really can receive bread from a stranger and smile in gratitude, can feed many without even realizing it. Those who can sit in silence with their fellow man not knowing what to say but knowi...
Fear trumps empathy.
Imagine if suffering were real.Imagine if those old people were afraid of death.What if the midget or the girl with one armreally felt pain? Imagine how impossible it would beto live if some people we...
God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain.
Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).
Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more "good" and no more "bad"...
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our wo...
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
When we see others cry it is difficult, not because of feeling their pain, but your own.
How did I learn empathy? I learned it while suffering. How did I learn about karma? Because it came back to me and I deserved it. I now know when any hurt I experience is due to circumstances outside...
We live by encouragement and die without it -- slowly, sadly, and angrily.
The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity...
When you show love and empathy to people, you draw them closer to your beliefs and traditions