Quotes About Empathy

She confided in John, felt a peaceful glow in his presence, and he responded with deep compassion.

When it comes to understanding others," I said, "we rarely tax our imaginations.

One of the most difficult of all things to endure for a crow, a raven, a wolf, or a human is to feel alone and separated from one's own kind. A sense of belonging is one of the most universal of all feelings.

The example of this poor, dark-skinned man who turned the empire upside-down made a deep impression on the young Sadat. "I began to imitate him," he writes. "I took off all my clothes, covered myself from the waist down with an apron, made myself a spindle, and withdrew to a solitary nook on the roof of our house in Cairo.

Now I know that without mirrors we are different, we're not really the same...Maybe they had noticed us looking worriedly at other people's faces, as if we wee trying to see in them what we had become

Every so often they exchanged these quick, knowing glances, each making sure the other one was still there, still with her. I wondered how long their friendship would last, and I felt sorry for them, because they didn't know it wouldn't.

Ninety percent of asking questions is about listening to answers.

The most unbearable type of anger is a woman's—do anything to avoid it.

problem shared is a problem halved.

He believed that anything could be reverse-engineered. If one human or group of humans put something together, then another human or group of humans could take it apart again. It was a basic principle. All that was required was empathy and thought and imagination. And he liked pressure. He liked deadlines. He liked a short and finite time to crack a problem. He liked a quiet space to work in. And he liked a similar mind to work with.

Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that statement was plain to see. Reacher put the guy out of misery. A single shot, close range, behind the ear. An unnecessary round expended, but good manners had a price

It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both at the same time.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you start criticizing him, you're a mile away and he's got to run after you in his socks. - Jack Reacher

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you start criticizing him, you're a mile away and he's got to run after you in his socks.

Era posible que estuviera reaccionando como reaccionan muchas víctimas de secuestros: con cierta desconfianza hacia quienes no han compartido su experiencia.

Being dumb wasn't a capital crime. Wasn't a crime at all, in fact. Merely a handicap.

You know, a problem shared is a problem halved.

But French people understand that

She tinged her attitude with a gentle mocking humor which saved people from hating her.

empathy was the key. Understand their motives, their circumstances, their goals, their aims, their fears, their needs. Think like them. See what they see. Be them.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

I knew you liked him, Henry said. Ever since he tied your tie.

As we look at human relationships, what we see is that lovers don't want explanations, but presence. And

Until that moment, I only saw Jesus as the Son of God. I knew he had come down to earth, but that night for the first time it dawned on me: He understands me. He walked in my shoes! As a matter of fact, he was sort of a toogee. You know? His daddy — his earthly father — wasn't his real daddy. He slept in the straw as a child. He was ridiculed and abused. They chased him and tried to kill him.