Quotes About Empathy

I developed an exercise to practice and reinforce universalism. When I had the impulse to dismiss someone as a bad player, I made myself find something that they did well. It was an exercise I could do for myself, and I could get help from my group in analyzing the strategies I thought those players might be executing well. That commitment led to many benefits.

This makes us more compassionate, both toward ourselves and others. Treating outcome fielding as bets constantly reminds us outcomes are rarely attributable to a single cause and there is almost always uncertainty in figuring out the various causes.

It's embarrassing when someone tells you that you have something stuck in your teeth. It's more embarrassing when that stuff stays stuck in your teeth because no one told you. By "being kind" and keeping what they see from you, they inadvertently deny you the chance to get the spinach out of your teeth.

Be thankful when people disagree with you in good faith because they are being kind when they do.

Resulting makes us lack compassion for ourselves and others.

Hindsight bias, like resulting, makes us lack compassion for ourselves and others.

When I made love and climaxed, I felt that my body was basically no different from that of a man.

E forse il vero scopo della mia vita è soltanto questo: che il mio corpo, le mie sensazioni e i miei pensieri diventino scrittura, qualcosa di intelligibile e di generale, la mia esistenza completamente dissolta nella testa e nella vita degli altri.

A partir de entonces, les he dicho a varios hombres: «Cuando yo estaba a punto de cumplir doce años, mi padre intentó matar a mi madre». El hecho de haber necesitado decírselo demuestra lo unida que me sentía a ellos. Sin embargo, todos se quedaron en silencio después de oírlo. Y yo me daba cuenta de que había cometido un error, de que no estaban preparados para escucharlo.

There were the other girls, with their empty bellies, and there was me.

the pain I was about to inflict on myself would be nothing compared to the suffering experienced in death camps. This thought gave me courage and heightened my determination. Also, knowing that hundreds of other women had been through the same thing was a comfort to me.

Il avait appris la condition essentielle pour ne pas reproduire la misère des parents : ne pas s'oublier dans une femme.

Sa femme est à côté de moi. Je ne « sens » rien, sinon une espèce de curiosité, mais les quelques paroles qu'ils échangent tous les deux me relèguent à ma condition d'étrangère Ã¢â'¬â€œ doublement. Elle semble ne plus soupçonner quoi que ce soit.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.

Reading literature makes us better people.

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

Having experienced her own disappearance, she is conscious of how important it is for people to be seen, so when she looks at them --even the blind one--she also looks for them, just in case they too have got lost and need finding.

If it is true that you are what you eat, it may just as accurately be said that you are what you listen to. STEVEN HALPERN

Silence encourages the tormentors not the tormented

Every day is irreplaceable, so don't ruin yours by allowing the negative moods of others to pull you into their frame of mind.

Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear.

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.