Quotes About Empathy

Pe vremea cand eram mai tanar si mai influen?abil, tata mi-a dat un sfat care de atunci mi-a ramas prezent in minte. -Ori de cate ori ai pofta sa critici pe cineva, mi-a spus, ?ine seama ca nu to?i oamenii au avut avantajele de care te-ai bucurat tu.

Uno no puede saber nunca el lugar que ocupa realmente en la vida de otra persona.

Cuando yo era más joven y más vulnerable, mi padre me dio un consejo en el que no he dejado de pensar desde entonces. «Antes de criticar a nadie», me dijo, «recuerda que no todo el mundo ha tenido las ventajas que has tenido tú».

Negli anni più vulnerabili della giovinezza, mio padre mi diede un consiglio che non mi è mai più uscito di mente. Quando ti vien voglia di criticare qualcuno mi disse ricordati che non tutti a questo mondo hanno avuto i vantaggi che hai avuto tu.

Jei kada nor?si k? pasmerkti, prisimink, jog ne visi žmon?s tur?jo toki? galimybi?, koki? tur?jai tu.

Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It's part of letting their actions have weight. It's part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just being a flurry of events. It's part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.

the best that can be done is to love for the sake of it, and to keep sorrow company.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

Lesson number 1b in Bibwit's carefully planned curriculum: For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; it is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity- is heroic. To soldier through the days in a wake of failure is the corageous act of many. To rule benevolently, a queen should be able to enter into the feelings of those less fortunate than herself.

She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened--hard to live with it. [...] It was hard to blame them, harder still to live with the need to blame them.

No matter how kind or well-meaning you are, someone will always resent you.

Being a Milliner's about standing up for what's right, for those who can't stand up for themselves.

That's your problem, isn't it, Madigan? Too much feeling.

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

I should like friendship with you ... and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.

It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.

O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers.

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

Duncan spoke quietly: 'Lucilla, if you touch me again without my permission, I will try to kill you. I will try so hard that you very likely will have to kill me.

Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?" Jessica

One doesn't need telepathy to read your intentions.

She's the One all right," she muttered. "Poor thing.