Quotes about Empathy

You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised

Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.

He said that the world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them and therefore to know it one must look there and come to know those hearts and to do this one must live with men and not simply pass among them.

People from the other side will seem odd to you. And you will never understand the latitude which they extend to you.

He said that if a person understood the soul of the horse then he would understand all horses that ever were.

You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised, said Blevins.

You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised, said Blevins.

They was some of em wound up just livin in the woods like animals. And that was a cold winter, too. People would see em crossin the road at night in the carlights. Whole families. Carryin blankets. Pots and pans. People tried to find em. Take em some flour and meal. Coffee. Maybe a little sidemeat. I think about those children. I do yet.

Those people would take you in and put you up and feed you and feed your horse and cry when you left.

The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.

When we look at other people comparatively and competitively, we're not seeing them as our brothers and sisters. We're not loving them more than we love ourselves, and we we're definitely not seeing them as God sees them.