Quotes About Empathy

Tolerância universal é indiferença. Quem tolera tudo, é porque não se importa com nada'.

As ostras felizes se riam dela e diziam: 'ela não sai da sua depressão...'. Não era depressão. Era dor. Pois um grão de areia havia entrado dentro da sua carne e doía, doía, doía. E ela não tinha jeito de se livrar dele, do grão de areia.

O silêncio é como uma taça vazia que, por ser vazia, permite que a pessoa que está sofrendo recolha nela todas as suas lágrimas, que nós não conhecemos.

A solidão e o sofrimento me fizeram sensível à voz dos poetas.

Jesus ordenou "amar o próximo". Porque é fácil amar o distante. O próximo é aquele que está no meu caminho, que tem o poder de me dizer não. Mais difícil que amar os doentes, que são carência pura, fraqueza pura, dependência pura, mendicância pura, é amar aqueles que estão ao meu lado e que são tão fortes quanto eu. Reverência pelos que estão ao meu lado.

O riso é, talvez, o remédio mais poderoso para nos ajudar a conviver com a tristeza.

A obra de arte ou é para exprimir ou para curar o sofrimento.

O menino abandonado não me abandonou. Entrou dentro de mim e mora comigo. Me faz sofrer. Me dá ternura. Sempre que vejo uma criança abandonada, eu sofro. Quereria poder protegê-la, cuidar dela. Eu me enterneço porque a criança abandonada que mora em mim está sofrendo.

O ato de ouvir exige humildade de quem ouve. E a humildade está nisso: saber, não com a cabeça, mas com o coração, que é possível que o outro veja mundos que nós não vemos.

Todos Somos Unos Hijos De La Verga

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

I have learnt that how someone sees you is really none of your business; it's the film they're playing of you, nothing to do with you, so move away from the building.

The essence of neuroplasticity is that what you practise you'll cultivate. If you are cruel and spiteful, you'll become expert at getting even crueller and more spiteful. If you practise being compassionate, you'll become more compassionate. That's how our brains work; the way we think or feel determines our wiring and what chemicals are coursing through our veins. If

Learning to read faces should be compulsory in schools so you can decipher what people are really thinking.

to fill that gap. The habit of judging ourselves is what pounds us into the ground. You're

our hearts bleed because we hear of a beached whale while the next minute we're baying for the blood of someone who stole the last shopping trolley.

One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive.

Why are they like that?" I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek. "I don't know," Cico answered, "except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other—and it's worse when they're in a group.

The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately.

Understand is not the word; you are right, you can never really 'understand' about someone, anyone, even yourself. It is best to believe in them as human; feel that they are alive like you and need warmth, concern.

I have eaten your bread and salt.I have drunk your water and wine.The deaths ye died I have watched besideAnd the lives ye led were mine.