Quotes About Empathy

realizes it's her own loneliness that she sees in him.

Moscow, Russia It is a commonly held belief that twins, especially identical ones, share an inherent understanding of their co-twin's emotional state. They report experiences of enhanced emotional or physical connection, such as having a feeling of something being wrong when their twin is in crisis.

The truth is, all I really want is someone who will care about me for who I am, rather than what I look like.

the path to hell starts when we rob other people of their humanity. Once they stop being human, we can do what the hell we like to them. As long as we allow others to retain their humanity, we retain our own.

love was the condition that exists whenever another person's happiness and well-being is necessary for your own happiness and well-being.

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened".

I just want you to know that I will do anything to help you through this difficult time. But I need to learn what to say and what not to say, what to do and what not to do, so I can be an encouragement and not hurt you unintentionally. I am even willing to attend this group by myself to learn these things, but it would be much better if you would go too. Then we could discuss the experience and what we both learn from it.

Love somehow goes with suffering.

We live in a culture now where impact is more important than intent; where how things are taken is more significant than how they are meant.

Kirsty White.

do this – and very large lines appeared across his forehead. His nostrils flared, becoming even wider holes than they already were. Speak-No, Hear-No and See-No

Just as a particular racism can only really be defined by the victims of that racism, the deep truth of identity is only available to those who live that identity. Casting a non-minority actor to mimic that identity feels, to the progressive eye, like impersonation, and impersonation carries with it an element of mockery: or at least, it is reductive, lessening the complexity of that experience by channeling it through an actor who hasn't lived it.*

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Listening is an underrated asset. People these days, they don't listen as much as they should. I read a lot, I travel a lot and I'm always listening.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

Translation is another name for the human condition.

Matthew 24:12). As mankind treats one another in destructive, self-centered ways, we create emotional wounds that make people afraid to love and trust. And the less we feel loved, the more pain we inflict upon each other. Thus the ever-growing cycle continues on, and pain abounds. Most

Getting your feelings hurt is not an offense. Feeling ignorant around someone is not an offense. Being made angry is not an offense.

Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.