In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had." —F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby More about this quote Tags: empathy privilege advantage advice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every life, properly understood, is compelling. Anyone aspiring to be an artist knows there’s no such thing as why-bother or nothing-to-see. —David Shields More about this quote Tags: understanding empathy importance life Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the Earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. —Eugene Debs More about this quote Tags: politics empathy commonality privilege kinship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or as heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. —Henry Miller in The World of Sex More about this quote Tags: empathy love non-judgement acceptance clear-seeing beauty open-mindedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. —Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird More about this quote Tags: understanding understand empathy opinion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The situation of the world is still like this. People completely identify with one side, one ideology. ... Reconciliation is to understand both sides, to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then to go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side. Doing only that will be a great help for peace. —Thích Nhất Hạnh More about this quote Tags: understanding empathy peace identity ideology reconciliation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: understanding empathy fear knowledge communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: empathy friendship success sympathy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. —Anne Sexton More about this quote Tags: empathy soul listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can. —Dodie Smith More about this quote Tags: empathy love suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. —Olive Schreiner More about this quote Tags: empathy life purpose sadness comfort do no harm Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around. —James D. Watson More about this quote Tags: empathy children happiness childhood school milkshakes bullying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She's your one. The one who reaches you. The one who makes you different. —Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight More about this quote Tags: empathy change connection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. —Martin H. Fischer More about this quote Tags: empathy science medicine doctors bedside manner Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email