1,354 Quotes About Empathy

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our constant exclusion. Our sphere has widened and we find ourselves quite unexpectedly in a new expansive location in a place of endless acceptance and infinite love.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.

Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.

In the beginning was the relationship.