Quotes about Empathy

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

When Niebuhr thought a little more deeply about Darrow's empathy with black suffering, however, he said, "I suppose it is difficult to escape bitterness when you have eyes to see and heart to feel what others are too blind and too callous to notice."

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

I had the opportunity to go into the hospitals and talk to kids and see a kid and make him smile. Why? Because I'm a special person? No. It had nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with me being the quarterback at the University of Florida. And to not take advantage of that is a shame.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

If you don't love your fellow man, women, person, then you don't have anything. If you don't treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated that to me is the fundamental message.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.