Quotes About Empathy

Shouts and blows may have won arguments for you in the past, fellow. They are pointless in the current situation.

di lahat ng payo makakabuti para sa 'tin dahil di man lahat ng naranasan ng iba..ay kagaya ng eksaktong nararanasan ng bawat isa.

I felt as though a sympathetic hand were tending the wounds where thorns had stabbed me. . .

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.

And then I understood that the answer is yes, yes yes: I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience.

One piece of information that made an impression on her was that individual Chinese lives mattered to the Westerners.

It was not so much a feeling of being insulted, but an overwhelming pain for the people of my native land. We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings, and consequently some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves. I thought of the old observation that Chinese lives were cheap, and one Englishman's amazement that his Chinese servant should find a toothache unbearable.

mosquito-netted open windows was an enormous privilege. 'You must not think you are superior to them,' he would say. 'You are just

The old man, who shuffled along with great difficulty, bent double, was blind. To attract the attention of passersby,he sang a heart wrenching tune. Every time my father heard the song, he said to himself that society must change.

I do not want any man to see me suffer.

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.

But I know, I know my death will not kill me. Rather it is the death of others that will kill me.

I would never do anything just for spite.

The feeling of being different is really what makes us the same. We have our own struggles, yet we want the same things. We want human connection, a place to feel at home, and pizza.

It was K's idea that faces were a roadway between men.

Un aparat de radio ÅŸi o oglind? au un punct comun: amandou? pot s? fac? leg?tura între o persoan? ÅŸi alta.

le visage est le pont jeté entre le moi et celui des autres

For me, whatever you may say, you are the most important "other person." No, I do not mean it in a negative sense. I mean that the one who must first restore the roadway, the one whose name I had to write on the first letter, was first on my list of "others." (Under any circumstances, I simply did not want to lose you. To lose you would be symbolic of losing the world.)

it's probably a good thing to go to the movies occasionally. The whole audience puts on the actor's face. No one needs his own. A movie's a place where you pay your money to exchange faces for a while.

Reikia laižyti kits kitam žaizdas. Bet jei amžinai laižysi amžinai negyjan?ias žaizdas, tai ir liežuvis sudils.