Quotes About Empathy

If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.

I think everybody should be nice to everybody.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

Quizá eso que silencio sólo puedas decírmelo tú. Y noto que, a tu modo, me lo dices.

Jumping to conclusions rarely gets us anywhere we want to be.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it.

Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping paper. Melanie put her arms around the poor, thin body. What is Aunt Margaret made of? Birdbones and tissue paper. spun glass and straw.

Fish in the sea are luminous so that they can recognise one another; might not men and women also exude some kind of speechless luminescence to those akin to them?

The heart's egoism sees itself suffering when it sees another suffering and so it learns sympathy, because it can put itself into another's place; then the heart comes a little way out of its egoism and tentatively encounters the world. But, before the prospect of its own suffering, the heart melts completely and retreats into egoism, again, to protect itself.

Child, if such folks awe you, then picture them on the lavatory, straining, constipated. They will at once seem small, pathetic, manageable." And she whispered to me a great, universal truth: "THE BOWELS ARE GREAT LEVELLERS.

Do you not feel... that invisible presences have more reality than visible ones? They exert more influence upon us. They make us cry more easily.

Watching a film was like being a voyeur, living vicariously.

La commedia è una tragedia che capita agli altri.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

All we can do is the best we can and let others be who they are.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. —William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

Well, naturally, it is not a bad thing to love peace," Ernan countered. "But there comes a time when people can't bear the burdens placed on them. Master Hus is helping people see those burdens, things they've never seen before. And if it isn't right, it won't be borne. Haven't I said so before?" Anika

you get when you squeeze a lemon?" I blinked, surprised by the riddle's simplicity. "Lemon juice." "I'm afraid not." Rei stood. "When you squeeze a lemon, you get whatever is inside. So make sure she loves you as much as you love her.

Miss Starter said that she felt herself that quite enough was done for refugees and there was a woman psychopath in Surbiton who had done wonders for a friend of hers.

What Everard and Philip felt about the hard luck, to give it no harder name, that might tear all their ex-pupils (for they could not help looking at the situation from their own schoolmastering point of view and especially from the point of view of their own school) from their various avocations and pitchfork them into the paths of glory which may lead but to the grave, was so mixed that neither of them could quite have put it into words.