Quotes About Empathy

deixava que me tocasse, não lhe tocava, custa-me tocar nas pessoas, herdei isto de si, pai, não é que não me apeteça, há alturas em que me apetece mas se tocasse dissolvia-me nelas e não tornava a ser eu

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A melhor maneira de lidar com os outros é tomá-los por aquilo que eles acham que são e deixá-los em paz.

La historia de nuestra civilización es, hasta cierto punto, la historia de un esfuerzo persuasivo por extender los mejores «sentimientos morales» a círculos cada vez más amplios de humanidad

The humans who first devised the Golden Rule, that we should treat others the way we want others to treat us, formulated the precept with the help of what they felt when they were treated badly or when they saw others badly treated. Logic played a role as it worked on facts, to be sure, but some of the critical facts were feelings.

neurobiology not only can assist us with the comprehension and compassion of the human condition, but that in so doing it can help us understand social conflict and contribute to its alleviation.

La medicina no empezó como un deporte intelectual pensado para ejercitar nuestro ingenio ante un diagnóstico enigmático o un misterio fisiológico, sino que lo hizo como consecuencia de ciertos sentimientos específicos de los pacientes y de los sentimientos que estos despertaban en los primeros médicos;

Empaths did not come into this world to be victims, we came to be warriors. Be brave. Stay strong. We need all hands on deck.

For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity.

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

If you're twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong? That isn't tolerance but condescension.

If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?

I lack the Lord's own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.

Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone? What does it mean to love? It means to see a person, a thing, a situation, as it really is and not as you imagine it to be, and to give it the response it deserves. You cannot love what you do not even see.

Love springs from awareness. It is only inasmuch as you see someone as he or she really is here and now, and not as they are in your memory or your desire or in your imagination or projection, that you can truly love them. Otherwise, it is not the person that you love but the idea that you have formed of this person, or this person as the object of your desire, not as he or she is in themselves.

What we need is not just action that will bring about change but sight that will bring about love.

Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. So stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person.

Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. "You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.