“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
Others on Empathy
Meryl Streep
2 quotes“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
Atticus Poetry
2 quotes“Don't worry— you see, to some you are magic.”
Brené Brown
2 quotes“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.”
Walt Whitman
2 quotes“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2 quotes“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to dis...”
John Green
2 quotes“On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we...”
Edward Gibbon
1 quote“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
John Wooden
1 quote“"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.”
Stephen Covey
1 quote“How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”
Emily Brontë
1 quote“However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater mi...”
José Saramago
1 quote“Everyone wants to save Man, but no one wants to know about men.”
Sylvia Plath
1 quote“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if o...”