Quotes About Empathy

You can crab over the morning paper and kick the shins of the guy in the next seat at the movies and feel mean and discouraged and sneer at the politicians but there are a lot of nice people in the world just the same.

That's the trouble with cops. You're all set to hate their guts and then you meet one that goes human on you.

I was way past the age when it's fun to swear at people you can't hurt.

That's the trouble with cops. You're all set to hate their guts and then you meet one that goes human on you.

He came over and held out his hand. I shook it. It was as clammy as a dead fish. Clammy hands and the people who own them make me sick.

Love doesn't demand; it accepts. It has taken me my life to learn this.

Love doesn't demand; it accepts. Mara to Kamilo.

Why? Why do you care what happens to scum like them?' De Loungville moved his horse alongside Erik's, so he was almost nose-to-nose with Erik when he answered. 'I don't care what happens to scum like them. You could cut off a piece at a time over a week and I wouldn't give a whore's promise for what it would do to them. But I do care what it would do to you, Erik.

Love doesn't demand; it accepts, Mara to Kamlio. Mistress of the Empire - The Empire Trilogy

I know, when we are young we cannot entertain the idea another's feelings can be as deep as our own. Our love is so much loftier, our pain so much more intense.

It's often said we take offense most in what we see of ourselves in others.

It's difficult the first time you have to get close to kill another. You see their eyes, see the light in it go out. Even a troll's eyes have that light. I'd be worried if you didn't feel something after that. I don't like hunting with a man who's a killer without that feeling.

It was something he had never quite understood about himself. He had seen thousands of men die in nearly ten years of war and could look on it at times with a near-total detachment, but an animal suffering - be it a horse or needra injured in battle, or the stag now dying - moved him deeply.

Train those around you well, Pug. Make them powerful, but make them loving, generous men and women as well.

when you enter another's reality, you observe her rules. Then

Ljudi kažu da nas ?esto najviše vre?a deo sopstvenog lika u drugom ?oveku.

Nisi se ružno ponela prema meni, Karlina. Ja sam se ponašao kao tupan. - Ne, ti si se samo ponašao kao prijatelj Rolande. Rekao si mi istinu, a ne ono što sam želela da ?ujem.

Os defeitos que vemos nos outros nunca parecem tão terríveis como os que vemos em nós...

among man's strange undertakings, war stood clearly forth as the strangest.

He studied his two friends, taking note of their freshly bruised countenances. 'All right. What happened?

Then don't assume you need to be the one to make the sacrifice. Don't hold your own needs as less important than other people's.

I feel an immediate closeness to anyone who loves New York or hates Los Angeles. Either condition is sufficient, but I've found that satisfaction of the one usually entails satisfaction of the other.

But emotions teach those who are willing to pay attention. By processing them, we learn to empathize, and love ourselves and others. In fact, understanding this aspect of our being is central to healing our family history, because it holds the most powerful energy that we use to create our lives.

What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story.