Quotes About Empathy

I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.

If you're sorry for her, that means you're putting yourself above her. Anything can be terrible if we make it terrible, or if we let other people tell us how terrible it is.

The giving of love took nothing from others.

Most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books...to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.

similarity in experience does not necessarily make a juror sympathetic . . . [but] may lead to less objective and more harsh responses.

rarely treated as the torture victims they really are.

Neko? v prihodnosti se bomo znašli v situaciji, ko bomo morali sprejeti vse, kar smo v preteklosti storili drugim, in to velja tako za dobre besede in dejanja kot za ostre in ponižujo?e.

Ljubezen je topilo za najtrše srce.

Šele sedanje trpljenje zaradi krivice, ki smo jo neko? prizadeli drugim, nas pripelje do spoznanja, kako bole?e je bilo zanje takšno nepremišljeno in brezsr?no obnašanje.

Faults shared are as comfortable as bedroom slippers and as easy to slip into.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.

The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally. 'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge. 'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.' 'Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation.

I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when it's Dad?" Tyler told me. "You'll feel even worse, of course, but you'll carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in again. It really does," I said.

I hate that phrase: move on. Like no matter what happened or what you did, you just "move on," and that's supposed to make everything all right.

Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

Real love opens doors to something larger than oneself.

His eyes were sharp but kind, and it seemed to amuse him to see children misbehave when he knew that deep down they didn't really want to misbehave, but were just feeling lonely or misunderstood or wanted to go outside and play instead of sitting in a hot classroom. (26)

Before you laugh at someone's misfortune, have a moment to walk in their shoes. Now, you've LOL-ed and you have their shoes.

you could help people most by not giving them the burden of your heart.

It wasn't the country, the girl, the teacher who let us down; it was our judgment, and whatever led us to expect too much of the country, the girl or the teacher in the first place. That was why it became harder and harder to condemn anyone: wouldn't God himself, faced with a wounded murderer, feel somewhat at a loss?

E lui sa che per gli uomini la cosa più difficile è proprio stabilire un contatto con il mondo degli altri.

Human relations are becoming colder. Communications are becoming more hurried and impersonal. Values such as profit and efficiency are taking on greater importance at the expense of human warmth and genuine presence.

It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.