Quotes About Empathy

People can only be social friends if they don't try to upstage or outsmart one another.

If you want strangers to help you, smile. For those close to you, cry.

There is no absolute measure of good or bad. It is not what you are telling people, it is how you are saying it.

He is not you, not a member of your family, so he has no direct emotional loss should your health experience a degradation.

to accept the fact that I am rather emotional.

We humans scorn what is not concrete. We are more easily swayed by a crying baby than by thousands of people dying elsewhere that do not make it into our dining room. The one case is a tragedy, the other a statistic.

Se você não gostar de uma pessoa, deixe-a em paz ou a exclua da sua vida; não a ataque verbalmente.

It is those who use others who are the most upset when someone uses them.

qué humanista no desea minimizar la discrepancia entre los seres humanos?

the worst pain inflicted on you will come from someone who at some point in your life cared about you.

Normalmente, cuando decimos que alguien sabe escuchar es que tiene una indiferencia muy lograda.

Kun nainen huutaa, että tekosi oli anteeksiantamaton, hän on jo alkanut antaa anteeksi.

If you lie to me, keep lying; don't hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.

Thou shalt not become antifragile at the expense of others.

Everything in religious law comes down to the refinements, applications, and interpretations of the Golden Rule, "Don't do unto others what you don't want them to do to you." This we saw was the logic behind Hammurabi's rule.

Just as you should treat others in the way you'd like to be treated, you would like to share the responsibility for events without unfairness and inequity.

porque cuando a alguien le iban mal las cosas sentía siempre un ligero placer que disimulaba bajo un gran afán de ofrecer ayuda (...)

Per educare un altro bisogna avere nei confronti di se stessi almeno un poco di fiducia e di simpatia.

But he said that all men made you sorry for them if you looked at them closely, and that in fact one ought to guard against that excess of compassion which arose suddenly, from looking closely at people.

Está claro que es preciso romper el silencio con uno mismo si queremos tratar de romper el silencio con los demás. Está claro que no tenemos ningún derecho a odiar a nuestra propia persona, ningún derecho a callar nuestros pensamientos a nuestra alma.

I have two goals. First, that readers be interested, drawn by a historical account, amused by its comic aspects, saddened by the tragic elements, captured by the possibilities of the past; and second, that readers be aware that there could be another way of looking at things besides the one I offer. I'm not giving a lesson or a sermon, I'm offering a dialogue, as I said before.

You think you're the only one? Theo said. Everyone has scars. We just don't all wear them on the outside.

right now,I am my father

Mommy, you say quietly, so as not to be overheard. Do you know how, when you love someone and you know they are hurting, it hurts you, too?