Quotes About Empathy

Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. Never will the world know how much it owes to them, nor what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on us. We enjoy fine music, beautiful pictures, a thousand exquisite things, but we do not know what they cost those who wrought them in sleeplessness, tears, spasmodic laughter, rashes, asthma, epilepsy, a terror of death which is worse than any of these.

Oh, my dear sir... Bless your heart and hide...

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering — this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutory day-time advice for everyone. But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn't work — in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

No woman wants an abortion. A woman who has one is almost always in a desperate situation, and her decision is not made lightly. She deserves Christian compassion, not... self-righteous scorn...

When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes.

Allow yourself a moment of grief when life's misfortunes visit you. However, do not spend your days building a monument in honor of them.

Soul connections are often formed through the currents of adversity.

Everyone is trying to believe in something these days, and they forget that miracles happen every day when we truly acknowledge the humanity of another or just have a simple, pure conversation with someone else.

Jews know hard days like the rest of us. Yes, Jews suffered — it's part of being human... Jews did not suffer more than any other comparable group of people. Jews as a rule belonged to the exploiting classes; that is why the Jewish Quarter is located next to the Royal palaces in Seville and Paris.

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

Anyone who grows up around farm animals cannot side with a wolf in the long clash of things. But you can be against tormenting any creature.

It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.

It takes a collector to know a collector, even if you do stack your treasures in your head instead of out on a shelf.

?im možemo nekom ?oveku da kažemo jasno i otvoreno da nas je uvredio i da navedemo posve odre?eno ?ime je to i kada u?inio, to zna?i da smo mu uvredu oprostili ili smo spremni da to u?inimo. Muka je dok uvredu nosimo ?utke u sebi.

Tako se teško živi, tako se kratko živi, pa još dobra polovica tog teškog i kratkog života nam pro?e u mržnji i nesporazumima. Oh, ugasite mržnju! Ljudi su nama potrebni i nikako se, nikako ne može živjeti bez opraštanja.

Ono sto je najljepše na iskrenoj i dubokoj ljubavi, to je da u odnosu prema onome koga volimo ni jedna naša mana ne dolazi do izraza. Mnogo šta što je zlo u nama is?ezava, a ono što je dobro ustostru?i se.

?ini mi se kad bi ljudi znali, koliko je za mene napor bio živeti, oprostili bi mi lakše sve zlo što sam po?inio i sve dobro što sam propustio da u?inim, i još bi im ostalo malo ose?anja da me požale.

every woman has some reason to weep and weeping is sweetest when it is for another's sorrow.

Sigurno je da mnogi ljudi cijelog svog zivota i ne slute kako nesrecnih ljudi ima na svijetu.

Sto vise samujes i cutis o sebi,sve ti je plici u ludji razgovor tvog susjeda.

Mali ljudi, koje mi zovemo deca, imaju svoje velike bolove i duge patnje, koje posle kao odrasli i mudri ljudi zaboravljaju. Upravo, gube ih iz vida. A kad bismo mogli da se spustimo natrag u detinjstvo, kao u klupu osnovne škole iz koje smo davno izišli, mi bismo ih opet ugledali. Tamo dole, pod tim uglom, ti bolovi i te patnje žive i dalje i postoje kao svaka stvarnost.

Nešto od ljudske istine ostane uvek za one koji ih strpljivo slušaju ili ?itaju.

Teško je ploviti bez krivudanja sa tolikim svetom na brodu i za spas svih treba ponekad nešto od tereta i u more baciti.

Alles im Leben ist eine Brücke – ein Wort, ein Lächeln, das wir dem anderen schenken.