Quotes About Empathy

It was all new, the bond, and he wondered how he could have lived his whole life and never had this, never had this closeness with another species, with a dog. It had been a great loss. He decided he would never be without a dog again.

In some way, the dog filled a hole in his life, filled a loneliness he hadn't even known existed, and he wondered if it had always been the same for men; if somewhere back in time in a cave a man took a wolf pup and sat him down and thought, There, my life is better now.

Misery loves company, but that doesn't mean you have to accept the invitation.

You save the world by concentrating on your own forgiveness lessons.

How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

I'm partial to anyone who looks half blind)

After thirty-nine years of being alive, I had forgiven my own parents for not knowing how to care for a child, but that was the depth of my forgiveness.

Poor Sasha. Not meant for these times, Ed said. They were both somehow cheered up by this conversation. But he means well.

I crammed a handful of Ativan into his mouth and flooded that orifice with forty ounces of Coca-Cola from the cup holder. 'This is going to take effect immediately,' I lied. 'Breathe, Mr. Sakha, breathe. Would you like me to sing a calming Western song? My name is Luka', I sang. 'I live on the second floor.

The Actor to Dee: You fall in love with yourself first. With who you want to be when interacting with the person you think you're in love with. Then maybe, if you loosen up a little, you fall in love with what the other person really is, but primarily you still love them because of how they enhance you. Now you just have all these backup reasons to love them.

tikkun olam, or "repairing the world.

It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church—dramatically and poignantly—the nature of its heart and mission.

An anguishing book offers anguished people a homeopathy of anguish.

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and in the end had to content himself with a cellar. Surely we must pity the Opera ghost!

Why do you condemn a man who you have never seen, whom no one knows about and whom you yourself know nothing?

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

Everything that concerns you interests me greatly, as you will perhaps one day come to appreciate.

Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for her. But that she could marry the young man she pleased because she had cried with me, and mingled her tears with mine. ~ Erik

Y, como creía en el enfado de dos enamorados, se alejó encogiéndose de hombros y expresando de forma solapada la piedad que sentía por unos jóvenes que perdían en vanas disputas las horas que el buen Dios les ha permitido pasar en la tierra.

Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be some one, like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius OR USE IT TO PLAY TRICKS WITH, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must needs pity the Opera ghost. I

Si hay cosas de las que uno no se jacta, hay otras en las que se sufre demasiada humillación cuando se es compadecido.

Il ne m'a manqué que d'être aimé pour être bon!