Quotes About Empathy

Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman.

I believe in friendship and I'm willing to show my friendship first.

No profieras amenaza alguna. Razona con la gente.» El arte del razonamiento consistía en desoír todos los insultos, todas las amenazas; algo así como poner la otra mejilla.

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes.

How terrible man had been to his fellow man could be measured by the great exodus from what seemed to be a Garden of Eden.

It's easier to imagine the death of one person than those of a hundred or a thousand. When multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It's not easy to be moved by abstract things.

Un libro abierto es un cerebro que habla; cerrado, un amigo que espera; olvidado, un alma que perdona; destruido, un corazón que llora».

Algunos hombres, algunas mujeres, tienen una sensibilidad más intensa que otros, sienten y perciben cosas que a los demás nos pasan desapercibidas.

Ik weet niet waarom ik mijn hart bij hen heb uitgestort. Misschien omdat ik er, net als iedereen, zo nu en dan behoefte aan heb dingen die me bang of blij maken met iemand te delen.

Ser cosmopolita no significa ser indiferente a un país, y ser sensible a otros, no. Significa la generosa ambición de querer ser sensible a todos los países y a todas las épocas, el deseo de eternidad…».

Waag het niet ooit van je leven nog eens naar Newmarket te bellen,' voer ze tegen me uit, knarsetandend van boosheid. 'Dit is geen grapje. Ik heb een heel ernstig probleem met mijn man. Jij en ik mogen elkaar een tijdje niet zien of spreken. Alsjeblieft. Ik smeek het je. Als je echt van me houdt, doe dat dan voor me. (...) Maar bel me nooit meer op. Ik zit in de puree en ik moet erg uitkijken.

Es más fácil imaginar la muerte de una persona que la de cien o mil —murmuró el barón—. Multiplicado, el sufrimiento se vuelve abstracto.

I believe in friendship at first sight

Y es el sufrimiento del alma, sobre todo, el que hace buenos a los buenos

Le donne sono formidabili, - disse Carlitos. - Sgualdrine, comuniste, borghesi, cholas, tutte hanno qualcosa che noi non abbiamo. Non sarebbe meglio essere finocchi, Zavalita? Mettersi con qualcosa che conosci, e non con quegli strani animali.

Healing needs listening with the inner ear, stopping the incessant blather, listening.

Even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness.

We talked and talked and talked. Maybe love comes in at the eyes, but not nearly as much as it comes in at the ears, at least in my experience. As we talked, lights flicked on inside my head; by the end of the night I was a planterium.

Everything turned on the word we, a synonym for love, the thing that saves us all.

To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful.

We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens , and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop .

I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees' nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really wasn't so much the tragic event itself, but others having knowledge of it that prevented recovery.

The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.

We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower.