Quotes about Empathy

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers, And I become the other dreamers.

I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me,   You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.

To be in any form, what is that? (round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither,) If nothing lay more develop'd the quahung in it's callous shell were enough. Mine is no callous shell. I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop, they seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me. I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and I am happy, to touch my person to someone else's is about as much as I can stand.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments; I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person, My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labour to others

In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less, And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.

In all people I see myself, none more and not one barley-corn less, And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand

You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

In poems or in speeches I say the word or two that has got to be said, adhere to the body, step with the countless common footsteps, and remind every man and woman of something.

Amikor mellém érsz, idegen, és beszélni kÃ