Quotes About Empathy

It is very difficult to appreciate from the outside what a person in severe anxiety is experiencing. Brown rightly remarked about his friends 'imploring a drowning man [me] to swim when they don't know that under the water his hands and feet are tied.

One does not become fully human painlessly

Compassion gives us fresh perspective on what it means to be human, and helps us judge less harshly ourselves as well as the persons who impinge upon us.

Dac? vrem s? cunoa?tem pe cineva, trebuie s? avem cel pu?in disponibilitatea de a iubi acea persoan?

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Without compassion, freedom can be self-righteous, inhuman, self-centered, and cruel.

I have often been criticized for being an 'emotional' leader, for not being macho enough, but even during this early stage in my career, I believed that the magic of command lies in openness, in being both sympathetic to the troops and at the same time being apart, in always projecting supreme confidence in my own ability and in theirs to accomplish whatever task is set for us.

The people of Rwanda were not an insignificant black mass living in abject poverty in a place of no consequence. They were individuals like myself, like my family, with every right and expectation of any human who is a member of our tortured race. I was determined to persevere.

Trzeba umie? milcze? o tym samym, a nie tylko o tym samym mówi?.

Jis vert? mane skaityti Prust?, Tostoj?, ir Dostojevsk?,- pareišk? vargšel?, nužvelgusi mus šird? verian?iu žvilgsniu. - Kas gi su manim dabar bus?

Bruno, someday you will die of kindness, tolerance and gentleness. Well, given the options, it isn't a bad way to go.

They died... Have you ever seen a baby elephant lying on its side, with its trunk inert, gazing at you with eyes in which there seem to have taken refuge all those so highly praised human qualities of which humanity is so largely devoid?

Small attentions make great friends.

Perhaps, there was something missing in me, a lack of empathy without which even love and happiness are merely a part of that struggle toward championship.

J'ai jamais aimé faire de la peine aux gens, je suis philosophe.

After all, Father, to understand their demonstration one doesn't have to be very intelligent: it's enough to have suffered.

Ecoute moi bien. La prochaine fois que ça t'arrive, qu'on insulte ta mère devant toi, la prochaine fois, je veux qu'on te ramène à la maison sur des brancards. Tu comprends ?

There are those who have said about us, "What does she see in him?" or "What does he see in her?"; the usual sort of thing that only proves two people indeed see everything in each other.

Millions of people live in pain and anguish throughout the world, and it doesn't leak. I mean, it doesn't reach anyone. It isn't catching, as you say.

Starzy majÄ… takÄ… samÄ… warto?? jak wszyscy, nawet jak siÄ™ zmniejszajÄ…. CzujÄ… tak samo jak wy i ja i czasami nawet jeszcze bardziej przez to cierpiÄ…, bo ju? nie mogÄ… sobie da? rady. Atakuje ich natura, która potrafi by? wstrÄ™tna maÅ'pa i wykaÅ"cza ich na wolnym ogniu.

Il vero amore c'è quando esiste solo l'altro.»

L'odio si nutre di generalizzazioni.

To the people, Morel was the hero of a cause that had nothing to do with nations and political ideologies, a cause that had nothing to do with Africa and touched what was deepest in them — a secret rancor — a confused dream of being able one day to emerge victorious from the difficulty of being a man. They were staking a claim to respectful and decent treatment.

Besides, he had slept with a good number of women in his life: it had nothing to do with that need for company. He stubbed out his cigarette in the sand: What he needed was a good dog who would come and offer his paw from time to time.