Quotes about Empathy
Keeping score is for games, not friendships.
— John Maxwell
If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.
— Don Cheadle
I'm not that kinda guy to hold a grudge.
— Ted DiBiase Sr.
We have to learn to be kinder to ourselves.
— Frankie Bridge
What you realize when you work in the philanthropic world is that people aren't just numbers: they are families with real needs and you need to make your judgments with kindness and thoughtfulness in order to serve those needs.
— Jacky Rosen
The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
— Karl Barth
Women are supposed to be very calm generally, but women feel just as men feel.
— Kate Summerscale
Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
That's what's so difficult about Jesus' call to love others. On one level, it's easy to love God, because God doesn't smell. God doesn't have bad breath. God doesn't reward kindness with evil. God doesn't make berating comments. Loving God is easy, in this sense. But Jesus really let us have it when he attached our love for God with our love for other people.
— Gary Thomas
How much would every marriage change if we pursued absolute benevolence over our own comfort, happiness, and self-interest?
— Gary Thomas