Quotes About Empathy

Now, when you piss off a guy, you don't gotta say you're sorry even after you shoot 'em in the head with bird shot, but when you piss off a girl, saying 'I'm sorry' ain't even good enough. You gotta say it about a hundred times, and you gotta yammer on and on about how dumb you are and how you don't blame 'em if they never speak to you again.

Part of dealing with the sense of being cut off - for both the one dying and the one bereaved - is acknowledging that though a vital part of life has changed dramatically, all relationships (with friends, even with you, perhaps) have not.

Stockholm syndrome, wherein people held in captivity begin to empathize and identify with their captors as a way of adapting to their situation. It is too incongruous to be in a relationship with someone whose thinking and behavior are disturbing. Something has to line up, so women accept the pathological thinking and behavior to eliminate the disturbance they feel.

It's not safe to love everyone.

My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.

We must pass through acute loneliness to learn that we are not alone.

I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity—akin to torture.

She'd sighed the kind of long-suffering sigh he knew women gave when men were too thick-headed to understand the mysteries women were born understanding.

Some days, she was pain incarnate. She would suffer all day and he would try to cheer her up and fail, and he felt like an irrelevant gnat.

What is it about friendship that makes being among friends so much richer than being among the most accomplished and interesting strangers?

Love where there is no reason to love

We can help people a great deal by thinking about them positively and developing metta towards them. And sometimes we can help people just by keeping out of their way – or rather by not getting in their way. Sometimes people need space, and we help them most by giving it to them, or at least not taking it from them.

As my friend, if you declare it, I will write it down because when you are at your lowest, this will be a roadmap to finding yourself again.

Not everyone can handle your fragile.

Not everyone knows how to handle your fragile "package" with care. Know your worth.

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

Someone who was mean can become, after developing dementia, gentle and sweet.

People all around the world look different, they wear different kinds of clothes, prepare their food differently and speak different languages, but their hearts beat for the same emotions. This is the one and only universal human connection.

the world can still exist without god but it cannot survive without love.

He only does not live in vain Who all the means within his reach Employs?his wealth, his thought, his speech? T?advance the weal of other men.

If you tolerate the injustice done to you and pardon the perpetrator, the hatred will be transformed into affinity and love.

Yo mismo había defendido que la unión máxima entre dos personas llega cuando son capaces de pasar una tarde sin dirigirse la palabra. La pura compañía en silencio.

Para un niño, sentirse diferente a los demás es una de las experiencias más duras. Ser el raro, el tonto, el advenedizo, son situaciones que te predisponen contra tu entorno. Si el mundo te acoge con naturalidad y afecto, te sientes más dispuesto a seguir las normas convencionales. De lo contrario, es más posible que desarrolles la tendencia a huir de él. O a volarlo en pedazos.

If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.