Quotes About Empathy

My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, I'm sorry, all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief

I think—I think," she began hesitantly, "that I've always been lonely where women were concerned. It isn't just my working that makes Atlanta ladies dislike me. They just don't like me anyway. No woman ever really liked me, except Mother. Even my sisters. I don't know why, but even before the war, even before I married Charlie, ladies didn't seem to approve of anything I did—

Somehow she found that she was sitting on the low velvet chair and Ashley, on the hassock at her feet, was holding both her hands in his, in a hard grip. He was saying things—things that made no sense. Her mind was quite blank, quite empty of all the thoughts that had surged through it only a moment before, and his words made no more impression than rain on glass. They fell on unhearing ears, words that were swift and tender and full of pity, like a father speaking to a hurt child.

As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock along just the same, in spite of her heartbreak.

I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.

I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.

Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch...HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.

No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

Focus on humanity, not on technology.

I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.

Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don't become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.

People first. Technology second.

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

The future of marketing is not about technology

Fiction is empathy technology.

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