Quotes About Empathy

L'amitié, dit-il, ce n'est pas d'être avec ses amis quand ils ont raison, c'est être avec eux même quand ils ont tord.

FranÈ›a nu mai era pentru mine o simpl? colecÈ›ie de curiozit??i, ci o f?ptur? sensibil? È™i consistent?, din care, într-o zi, o f?râm? fusese grefat? în mine.

It was through Peter that she first understood that the world existed before her, without her. For a few days she could not forgive him for this.

Moltabano, for a moment, felt moved. That astonishing, wholly feminine capacity for deep understanding, for penetrating one's feelings, for being at once mother and lover, daughter and wife.

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I've read Hamlet, I know men suffer.

I listened; I wrote; I learned. I do not know why so many women trusted me enough to speak to me, but underneath anything I write one can hear the percussive sound of their heartbeats. If one has to pick one kind of pedagogy over all others, I pick listening. It breaks down prejudices and stereotypes; it widens self-imposed limits; it takes one into another's life, her hard times and, if there is any, her joy too.

How did I become who I am? I have a heart easily hurt. I believed that cruelty was most often caused by ignorance. I thought that if everybody knew, everything would be different. I was a silly child who believed in the revolution. [...] I can`t be bought or intimidated because I`m already cut down in the middle. I walk with women whispering in my ears. Every time I cry there`s a name attached to each tear. [...] I long to touch my sisters; I wish I could take away the pain.

What I've learned is that women suffer from terrible shame and the shame comes from having been complicit in abuse because one wants to live.

I believe in pure love, I-Thou, love without boundaries or categories or conditions or making someone less than you are; not treating people like they are foreign or lower or things, I-It.

Derek wished he had more of the right words to offer. But both he and Sloane knew those words didn't exist. So he gave her the only ones he had. I'm so sorry, sweetheart.

No one should be deprived of love without the very best of reasons.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

He, who doesn't know why he lives, cannot feel love for people or for life itself. I don't love myself enough, so I don't love people enough. One of my major defects is impatience: I try to get rid of it, but i can't. I am not tolerant enough for my age. I suffer for this, because i can't approach people with sympathy. They annoy me.

If two people have been able to experience the same thing even once, they will be able to understand each other.

That best portion of a good man's life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

If we truly care for others we need not be anxious about their feelings for us. Like draws to like.

True it is, we only hate those whom we do not know.

Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.

And then I see what she means. Because I did have to tell her, just like she had to tell me all of this. I had to trust her. Sometimes you have to tell someone else what it's like. Because if you don't, you'll go nuts.

We both hang up, but it's like there's still a connection. I can feel it. And it feels good.

As an apologetic strategy, it only makes sense to meet people where they are. Where else, indeed, can they be met?

There's one technique that you must use if you want people to listen to you: listen to them.