Quotes About Empathy

Il poeta annuì gravemente, guardò altrove e non disse altro. Come lui stesso aveva sostenuto più volte, l'amicizia si nutre di giri di bevute, stoccate spalla contro spalla e silenzi opportuni.

There are times when I am ashamed to be a man.

nothing is more human than cruelty

Es asombroso que los seres humanos, que viven tan poco tiempo, se esfuercen en causarse mutuamente tantos dolores»... Lo escribió Somerset Maugham.

todo lo sufrían en cualquier asalto, pero no sufrían que les hablaran alto.

en un mundo injusto como el que le ha tocado conocer, sólo hay dos maneras posibles de soportar la injusticia, sea divina o humana: resignándose a sufrirla, o aliándose con ella.

Mataria por muito poucas coisas, mas mataria quem fizesse mal a um cão. Sem qualquer remorso, com as minhas próprias mãos. -- Entrevista ao Expresso, publicada em 29/01/2021 na Edição nº 2518 da Revista

You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.

El heroísmo ajeno siempre conmueve una barbaridad.

No hay manera de acercar nuestra vida a la de nadie sin que ambas vidas resulten perturbadas.

This world is what we have made of it. If it is ruthless today it is because we have made it ruthless by our attitudes. If we change ourselves we can change the world, and changing ourselves begins with changing our language and methods of communication

Nonviolence is not just a state of being where violence is absent or invisible. It is a conscious, active effort not to harm anyone morally, spiritually, physically, mentally, economically, socially, or in any other way.

The basis of Gandhi's nonviolence is to appeal to the good in others and evoke sympathy to one's cause through self-suffering.

Nothing in life is as important as people who love us or people whom we love.

Suffering is real. To urge anything that dismisses it as 'unreal' is to mock the pain of another.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. (8.129)

May beings everywhere who suffer Torment in their minds and bodies Have, by virtue of my merit, Joy and happiness in boundless measure.

The work of bringing benefit to beings Will not, then, make me proud and self-admiring. The happiness of others is itself my satisfaction; I do not expect another recompense.

And now as long as space endures, As long as there are beings to be found, May I continue likewise to remain To drive away the sorrows of the world. The pains and sorrows of all wandering beings— May they ripen wholly on myself. And may the virtuous company of Bodhisattvas Always bring about the happiness of beings.