Quotes About Empathy

Cada vez que te sientas inclinado a criticar a alguien- me dijo- ten presente que no todo el mundo ha tenido tus ventajas.

A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.

Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.

I have a one-legged friend and I asked her what they said to John at the gate. She said she reckoned they said, "The lame shall enter first." This may be because the lame will be able to knock everybody else aside with their crutches.

Listen, lady, he said in a high voice, if I had of been there I would of known and I wouldn't be like I am now. His voice seemed about to crack and the grandmother's head cleared for an instant. She saw the man's face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children! She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest.

He couldn't understand at all why he had let himself risk his skin for a dead shriveled-up part-nigger dwarf that had never done anything but get himself embalmed and then lain stinking in a museum the rest of his life.

Mr. Shiftlet said that the trouble with the world was that nobody cared, or stopped and took any trouble.

Will you for God's sake get off that subject?" Julian said. When he got on a bus by himself, he made it a point to sit down beside a Negro, in reparation as it were for his mother's sins.

je suis doué d'une sensibilité absurde, ce qui érafle les autres me déchire.

You should have a heart in order to feel other people's hearts.

Het is misschien monsterlijke hoogmoed, maar de duivel hale me als ik niet evenveel sympathie voor de luizen die een bedelaar opvreten, als voor de bedelaar zelf. Ik ben er trouwens even zeker van dat de mensen evenmin elkaars broeders zijn als de blaadjes in het bos gelijk zijn.: ze worden samen door de wind geteisterd, dat is alles.

Tout comme Flaubert, "je suis doué d'une sensibilité absurde, ce qui érafle les autres me déchire.

We all know what it's like to want to have that support from our family members and the people that we love, especially our parents.

I always had funny stories to tell, but my family members never laughed at them.

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

My fans love me because I'm one of them.

I still want to be as approachable and relatable as possible - when I meet fans and they're crying, I'll say, 'Calm down, there's nothing to cry about.'

Every time we watch a little story play out inside our head, we're fantasizing, whether we realize it or not, and it seems to me that, though succumbing to fantasies about other people can be dangerous or self-defeating, the act of fantasizing itself is also an essential part of being human, of being capable of both abstraction and empathy.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you.

I love my mother the most in the world. She has seen a lot of poverty and loneliness and is very simple. Whenever I am in trouble, I go far away from her, as she is not at all strong. If I see her breaking, I break.

When you feel like a musician you listen to is like you, then they don't feel so far away, and whatever you want to get to isn't so far away.

I feel like there's something interesting to learn from anyone's story, no matter their place in society. I think we've gotten really far away from that - we're in such a celebrity-obsessed culture.