Quotes About Empathy

De poco sirve el conocimiento sin sabiduría, no hay sabiduría sin espiritualidad y la verdadera espiritualidad incluye siempre el servicio a los demás.

La esencia de un buen médico consiste en la capacidad de compasión y el sentido de la ética, sin los cuales el arte sagrado de la sanación degenera en simple charlatanería.

a nadie le importan los problemas ajenos y que los dolores callados acaban por diluirse.

The man and the little girl looked at each other, recognizing themselves in the other's eyes.

Ya no temo mi vulnerabilidad, porque no la confundo con debilidad; puedo vivir con los brazos, las puertas y el corazón abiertos.

En esos momentos recordaba la muletilla del tío Ramón: acuérdate de que los otros tienen más miedo que tú, y volvía a la carga.

In Chile it is bad manners to acknowledge that you're overly satisfied, because that can irritate the less fortunate, which is why for us the correct answer to the question "How are you?" is "So-so." That is an opening for sympathizing with the other speaker's situation.

Estaba harta de contemplar desde abajo los vellos de la nariz del resto de la humanidad.

Isabel Allende

I wait for you to complete the voyage into yourself, for the old wounds to heal. I know that when you return from your nightmares, we shall again walk hand in hand, as before.

Captain Longfellow—who, like most Englishmen, was kinder to animals than to people

Al necesitado no se le pregunta quién es ni de dónde viene, Richard. Todos somos iguales en la desgracia», le decía

Isabel Allende

Do you know what helps most in misfortune, Irina? To talk. Nobody can go around in this world all alone.

Isabel Allende

She learned to bear her troubles alone and with dignity, convinced no one was interested in other people's problems, and that pain borne in silence eventually evaporated.

because in essence they were sisters—as, finally, most women are.

There they could weep at leisure, unburdening themselves of their own troubles as they wept for someone else's death.

el extraño poder curativo de las palabras, de compartir el dolor y comprobar que otros también tienen su cuota; las vidas se parecen y los sentimientos son idénticos.

Isabel Allende

Como sociedad necesitamos encontrar la forma de hacernos cargo de los ancianos y de ayudarlos a morir si así lo desean.

You've completely forgotten what it takes to raise a child, Mr. Bogart. And this girl is traumatized -- she misses her mother, she's been pulled away from everything she knows, her family, her friends, her school, her community, her language. Can you imagine what that must be like?

The Isabel Allende Foundation

We get along really well, it seems to me, although he still grunts at me every once in a while. I don't pay any attention. I remember that when I met him, he struck me as surly, but in these months of living together I've discovered he's one of those guys who's ashamed of his own kind heart. He makes no effort to be nice and gets frightened when someone grows fond of him; that's why he's a little scared of me.