Quotes about Empathy

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.

It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look -- these the patient understands.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give.

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all