Quotes About Empathy

Gredel tried not to bristle at Caro's attitude. Hitting was what boyfriends did. It was normal. The point was whether they felt sorry afterward.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe from molestation. The Golden Rule shows anything but moral genius, and the claim by which it is followed in the Sermon on the Mount -- 'this is the Law and the Prophets' -- makes little sense.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

If I had to pick between knowing just a little about a lot of folks and knowing everything about a few, I'd opt for the long, wide-angle shot, I think.

What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarassment?

Those whom we love and admire most are the men and women whose consciousness is peopled thickly with persons rather than with types, who know us rather than the classification into which we might fit.

Political science has still to account for such facts as two nations attacking one another, each convinced that is is acting in self-defense, or two classes at war each certain that it speaks for the common interest. They live, we are likely to say, in different worlds. More accurately, they live in the same world, but they think and feel in different ones.

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event. That is why until we know what others think they know, we cannot truly understand their acts.

We are all poets, really.

I know people whose lives have been transformed by a good deed.

Es gibt genügend praktische Erfindungen, die uns keinerlei Trost spenden", hatte Dylia einmal ihren Brüdern mitgeteilt. "Aber viel zu wenige trostspendende, die überhaupt keinen praktischen Nutzen haben.

That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.

Sometimes you might forget who you are and where, but that's okay because there's always somebody around that's happy to remind you.

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

Y no podemos, porque el fenómeno humano se forja precisamente en la relación con los otros: los demás son el caldo de cultivo donde se cristaliza nuestra identidad. No podemos renunciar al prójimo.

Una ignorancia lúcida es la que te permite aprender de otros sin arrogancia, reconocer tus límites sin complejos y sin sentirte incompleto por ello.

Algunas personas, cuando le dicen al otro que ya no lo quieren, aprovechan para lavarse las manos: «¡Te dejo porque no te amo y tú tienes la culpa!». Doble golpe. Como quien dice, es hacer leña del árbol caído

Para la gente inflexible es muy difícil alcanzar un estado de paz interior. Más aún, es prácticamente imposible estar cerca de una persona rígida, llámese pareja, compañera o compañero de trabajo o de universidad, y no verse afectado negativamente por ella o él.

La consigna es como sigue: o haces tu revolución afectiva o revientas.

proximidad afectiva.

Amar es buscar el bien del otro y disfrutarlo, que su dolor nos duela y su alegría nos alegre, y con el amor propio ocurre algo similar: si no te perdonas, si te fastidia estar contigo mismo, si no te soportas y te menosprecias, ¡pues no te amas!