Quotes About Empathy

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.

It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...