No Empathy Quotes
Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.
Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.
As soon as we open our eyes in the morning, what we want most is to matter, to live a life and to do a work that has meaning. We have evolved to feel this way. Man's first thought was 'I AM'.
God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners.
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.
We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear, " he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.
Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.
There is no small act of kindness.Every compassionate act makes large the world.
One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.
To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)
...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.
If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)
Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.
I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.
If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.
Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.
When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.
I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken.
Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life.
There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.
The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you.
In my view, compassion takes empathy to another level. With compassion, there is an internal calling to move empathy into action. Compassion is love in action.
It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.
Earl: Augh! They're trying to take the wolf off the endangered list .Mooch: I know. But did you hear what they're putting back on the endangered list? Earl: What?Mooch: Empathy and compassion.
I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.
Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.
Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.
The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.
The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.
Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.
No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.
It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.
Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones.
Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.
A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.
It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.
When we take into consideration the needs of both ourselves and others, we communicate honestly, compassionately and effectively.