Quotes About Empathy

Aprecio seu interesse pelo meu bem-estar no trabalho. Mas, agora, preciso de você como ouvinte. Você gostaria de me escutar por alguns minutos? Depois, eu adoraria receber suas orientações para lidar com essa situação.

No one intervened—hardly surprising, thought Rosner, for intervention would have been intolerant—and no one thought to comfort him as he lay dying.

Within a month, five hundred Jews had chosen to kill themselves rather than face another day of torment, including a family of four who lived next door to the Kleins. "They shot themselves, one at a time," Klein said. "I lay in my bed and listened to the whole thing. A shot, followed by sobs. Another shot, more sobs. After the fourth shot, there was no one left to cry, no one but me.

Only the spoon," replied the don , "knows the pot's sorrows.

If someone is woke, it means they care about issues involving racial intolerance and societal injustice.

I suppose I needed to share it with her. I suppose I needed someone to forgive me.

No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even so, I believe what is truly essential to the success of any relationship is not so much compatibility, but love. When you love someone, virtually anything is possible.

I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

We are all wedded to our stories. It doesn't mean we are each hermetically sealed in our own little worlds, impervious to the influence of others. It does mean the only way to avoid such isolation is to listen, compassionately, to the stories of others.

La amistad es una vía de dos direcciones.

la caridad, la generosidad, la valentía, son avenidas de dos vías.

Honesty can siphon off a few regrets and resentments if you tap in to it. Let that sink in.

Nobody here wants to be awful," he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. "It's just nobody here knows all the rules yet, and that makes a rocky time.

A velhice também faz isso: de repente todas as pessoas começam a se dirigir a você no diminutivo: calmantezinho, remedinho, incomodozinho. Como se o diminutivo minimizasse os problemas da idade.

We need new rituals to awaken us to the fact that we are not separate from the land, water, and sky. We need ceremonies putting us back in touch, and urging us to conserve the resources that give life to everything in existence. We need to once again think as part of something greater, to view reality from a place higher than the narrow confines of a shortsighted ego. Empathy toward other living things should be one of the very first lessons instilled by all religions.

Grandma never understood fear, especially if it was someone else's.

Like serial killers and three of the worst men I ever dated, I never really had a grasp on what I was supposed to feel sorry about. Week after week, I filled the confessional with lies. I yelled at my teacher. I stole my best friend's favorite toy. I kicked a dog. I punched my brother in the nuts.

A lot of people who had terrible childhoods have kids to prove that they can do a better job, or to fix some cosmic rift by being the parents they needed to their own children.

It was nice to be invited to eat with another family. The Garretts didn't have a dad either, but I never asked why. I liked the feeling of not having to explain that part of myself to someone else and thought Erin might feel the same way.

Looking at them now, I realized love wasn't something you could perform but something you felt together.

We might simply ask about all our encounters with others in our polity, "Would I treat a friend this way?" When we can answer "yes," we are on the way to developing a citizenship that is neither domination nor acquiescence.

She is violent only when violence is acted upon her first. When shown kindness, she is kind. That is the way of animals and humans alike.

Shared sorrow is half sorrow