Quotes About Empathy

Quando a gente se aborrece dos homens toma sempre a afeição dos animais, que têm a vantagem de não discorrer, nem intrigar. (Linha reta e linha curva)

A amizade é o melhor pretexto, até hoje inventado, para que um indivíduo pretenda tomar parte na felicidade de outro.

You cannot deny me the fact," he said; "that the donor's pleasure is always greater than that of the beneficiary.

The poor thing was suffering cruelly because cancer is indifferent to a person's virtues.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.

Do you are laugh because you are successful or because another one is unfortunate?

De modo geral, os homens julgam mais com os olhos do que com o tato: todos podem ver, mas poucos são capazes de sentir. Todos veem nossa aparência, poucos sentem o que realmente somos [...]

You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see.

Once you understand a wound it loses its power to destroy you.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [...] understanding.