Quotes About Empathy

Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!

se c'è un modo di essere materno, dove non traspare nessun sentimentalismo, questo era il suo:

L'umorismo va distinto dall'ironia. ?ando si fa dell'ironia si ride degli altri. ?ando si fa dell'umorismo si ride con gli altri. L'ironia ingenera tensioni e confli?i. L'umorismo quando usato nella misura giusta e nel momento giusto (e se non è usato nella misura giusta e nel momento giusto non è umorismo) è il solvente per eccellenza per sgonfiare tensioni, risolvere situazioni altrimenti penose, facilitare rapporti e relazioni umane.

All of the sons of Adam are part of one single body, They are of the same essence. When time afflicts us with pain In one part of that body All the other parts feel it too. If you fail to feel the pain of others You do not deserve the name of man.

What opens our minds and shows the limits of our ideas is an encounter with other people, other cultures, other ideas.

we are the reflection of the idea of ourselves that we receive back from our kind.

We are for ourselves in large measure what we see and have seen of ourselves reflected back to us by our friends, our loves, and our enemies.

The human heart is bigger than the world.

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

Que a felicidade não dependa do tempo, nem da paisagem, nem da sorte, nem do dinheiro. Que ela possa vir com toda simplicidade, de dentro para fora, de cada um para todos. Que as pessoas saibam falar, calar, e acima de tudo ouvir. Que tenham amor ou então sintam falta de não tê-lo. Que tenham ideais e medo de perdê-lo. Que amem ao próximo e respeitem sua dor. Para que tenhamos certeza de que: "Ser feliz sem motivo é a mais autêntica forma de felicidade.

Fácil é julgar pessoas que estão sendo expostas pelas circunstâncias. Difícil é encontrar e refletir sobre seus erros, ou tentar fazer diferente algo que já fez muito errado. E é assim que perdemos pessoas especiais

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Children were strapped down, drugged, mocked, and institutionalized. We addressed their issues with pharmacology rather than empathy, and through coercion rather than care.

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The reason why people think stereotypes exist is because they don't take the time to get to know each other and jump to conclusions about a person's personality out of laziness.

I've taken to talking to the ground as if it is Stacy. I tell her how happy I am to still be with her, even though we can't see each other. I'm sure she feels the same way, comforting her lonely nights by knowing that I am still inside her, thinking about her. After my voice starts to get scratchy, I just speak to her in my head.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little me

Compassion arises from inside you - it is already present within you like a seed that needs to be cultivated. If you feed and water it, your compassion will grow - and so will you.

Mindfulness and compassion practice are antidotes to compassion fatigue.

Compassion fatigue is a common phenomenon, and nurses are especially vulnerable.