Quotes About Empathy

I thought again about how my mother—my real one—had said this to me one day. And she was absolutely right. Everyone has to feel like they matter.

She'd filled the house with plants and flowers, been good to Ana, she'd packed suitcases for their expensive vacations, waited while he played golf, and mostly (Pam was right about this) listened while Jim talked about himself endlessly, how smart he'd been in court that day, how he was the best in the business and everyone knew it.… She had bought him a drawer full of cuff links, a ludicrously expensive watch, because, he said, he'd always wanted one. But

But with my mother I didn't dare cry. Both my parents loathed the act of crying, and it's difficult for a child who is crying to have to stop, knowing if she doesn't stop everything will be made worse. This is not an easy position for any child.

Elizabeth Strout

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

You cannot say to the sun, 'More sun,' or to the rain, 'Less rain.' To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind.

It's the person who likes to pat dogs to whom dogs come for pats.

There was something about him that drove the shyness out of you, a kind of understanding that went deeper than words and set up an instantaneous closeness. It was odd; we couldn't have been more different. Arthur Gordon

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

On one side, interaction with others sharpens our minds and deepens our understanding. But it also teaches us about our obligations toward others—

We decide that what helps and pleases a person we love is good, because it also gives us pleasure. What injures him is bad, because it causes us pain to see him unhappy. We begin to realize that the happiness of others is also our happiness.

the pursuit of our own self-interest actually causes us to reach out to others.

Cicero's orator is a man built to heroic proportions. He must be a man of eloquentia, with the speaking skills necessary to move great crowds. He must be a patriot whose profound love of country allows him to identify with his audience, to feel what they feel and understand their needs and desires. And he must be a man who understands the true nature of good and evil. As with Aristotle, this last is the most important quality for a great statesman and orator.

His heart is so filled with the love of the machine that it has somewhat crowded out his love of the men who must run it.

I learned when you shout at someone," he once said, "you make him afraid. And when he's afraid, he won't tell you his troubles"—or tell a manager the truth about what on the assembly line wasn't working, or what had gone wrong. An

So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.

Give a child a good birth (if at all possible, no drugs to the mother)=1 and a good first three years, especially a good first three months, and a major part of the job of child rearing is done.

I am the shoemaker who sees only shoes in the world; being a therapist, I see only pain in humans. All scientists have to be careful of this because when we have a hammer, everything in the world looks like a nail.

por unos momentos, tratar al niño como si fuera el centro de nuestro universo. Todo eso lo hace plenamente feliz

Kleur heb je nooit zelf, kleur krijg je door anderen.

Zo heeft hij altijd het meeste van mensen gehouden. Hun zindering te voelen zonder hun zwaarte. Te weten dat die er is, al die energie die ze vragen en opwekken, maar ver genoeg bij hem vandaan om er geen schok van op te lopen.

Na verloop van leven doen mensen pijn.