Quotes about Empathy

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognises infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

I often wonder what would have happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ, there had been a Christian.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live: and unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves.

People are fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.

How is it possible to be uninterested in other men and by virtue of what cold nonchalance can you detach yourself from the life that they supply so copiously?

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.

High performance teams master the art of straight talk. They have learned how to confront issues and address behaviors without attacking or provoking one another.

Principle 1 - Don't criticize, condemn or complain.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.