Quotes About Empathy

If       you will practice being fictional    for a while, you will understand       that fictional characters are          sometimes more real than             people with bodies                and heartbeats.

Bir insan? neyi rahatlatt???n? bilirseniz o insan hakk?nda pek çok ÅŸey söyleyebilirsiniz.

BaÅŸkas?na zarar vermek için ne yapacaksan?z onu önce kendinize yap?n.

Ain't none of you ever been stuck in the mud and needed a push? I won't ask you how you can be for this and still call yourselves Christians, because one of you would have some kind of answer out of what I call the Holy-Joe-Do-It-My-Way Bible. But, Jeezly-Crow! How can you read the parable of the Good Samaritan on Sunday and then say you're for a thing like this on Monday night?

Ellos son animales, de acuerdo, pero ¿por qué crees que eso nos convierte a nosotros en seres humanos?

Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all.

To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us most–suspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or another–are defeated.

Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.

Just because people love your mind, doesn't mean they have to have your body, too

people need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some.

He'd had enough suffering right now to last him forever with plenty left over for others if they didn't have enough and wanted to have some more.

This might have been a funny story if it weren't for the fact that people need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some.

He probably, if it's possible, would have cried even more if he had known she was sleeping alone. That would have made him feel even sadder.

When other people were talking, she stared directly at them with very narrow understanding eyes that listened to them as if they were the only sound left in the world, as if everything else that made sound had disappeared entirely from the human ear and their voice was all there was left.

To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied.

if Charles is undone, he'll find half his acquaintance ruined too, and that, you know, is a consolation.

Being heard and understood is "one of the greatest desires of the human heart.

Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

slowing down your responses and becoming a better listeners aids you in becoming a more peaceful person

Your job is to try to determine what the people in your life are trying to teach you. You'll find that if you do this, you'll be far less annoyed, bothered, and frustrated by the actions and imperfections of other people.

You'll also notice that, as you reach out and let others be "right," they will become less defensive and more loving toward you.

One of the cardinal rules of joyful living is that judging others takes a great deal of energy and, without exception, pulls you away from where you want to be.

If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it's helpful to do kind, peaceful things.

Seeking first to understand isn't about who's right or wrong; it is a philosophy of effective communication.