Quotes About Empathy

Comprendre n'est pas justifier, l'empathie autorise cette distinction et l'intelligence permet, par la compréhension, d'adopter une position critique nous permettant de chercher des solutions.

Leçon: Ne jamais réduire l'autre à la perception que l'on peut en avoir, à ses problèmes, à sa pauvreté ou à ses crises.

À la lumière de cette tradition, et dans l'esprit de Montaigne, je dirais que lorsque je discute avec un individu avec qui je suis ou non d'accord, s'il a une bonne idée, c'est la mienne, et s'il en a une mauvaise, eh bien, c'est la sienne. Ce rapport à autrui est celui que les civilisations devraient nourrir entre elles; malheureusement, on retient souvent le moins bon des civilisations dominantes.

Those who did that thing were human beings, na. We should ask ourselves why human beings behave in such a way. Otherwise nothing can change. (Mommy-Ji)

Friendship is not necessary for closeness

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself—an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

This was, I realized, similar to Winifred's position. But we came at it from opposite directions—I from that of being more interested in reveling in the good in people and not wasting time with those who had none to offer, while she preferred slander and mockery. I'd never once heard her compliment anyone. When had a kind word ever escaped her hard lips? Misery was her trade and I wanted no part of it.

I guess the truth is we never know every detail about another person.

You learn far more about character from

As Shantideva writes in this beautiful prayer: As long as space endures As long as sentient beings remain, Until then may I too remain To dispel the miseries of the world.

So ethical conduct, practicing a moral life, is not something that can effectively be enforced from the outside but must grow out of a subjective understanding of what helps and what harms others.

We avoid harming others not simply because the actions themselves might have obviously negative repercussions, but because the mind that generates an unethical action will cause suffering for ourselves and others in less discernable ways in the future.

Let humanity be the other name for religion.

Reading entails empathy, a sort of "trying on" of being another person for a while.

13 Judge not, that you be not judged: condemn not, that you be not condemned: 14 forgive, and it shall be forgiven you: release, and you shall be released: give, that you may be given unto; with good measure, abundant, full, they shall thrust into your 15 bosoms.

You get attached to places, you know. Like people, I suppose.

The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this way? Were they told to do so, or did they act this way naturally? Were they in fact machines, not human beings? She looked closely at them. They seemed of flesh and bone. They were men. She couldn't understand.

I took his hand and pressed it hard. I could not bear to look at him any longer, so I closed my eyes and put his hand against my cheek. I cried with him. I felt his fingers grow wet with my tears, but I kept his hand there.

new France. I pity them, and I fear what lies ahead.

Don't you understand? Listen carefully to what I'm saying. If you do, you'll get it. you can grasp this easily. In short...in short, I shut myself in because I'm lonely. Because I don't want to face any more loneliness, I shut myself away.

All he could think of was how all people require attention. All people require respect. All people require acknowledgment. All people require love.

Since time immemorial wise people have been saying that all comparisons are odious. When we compare, we set up a winner-loser dynamic. If my crisis is greater than yours, then yours is belittled and insignificant. I say that's nonsense. Each crisis has its own power, its own unique reality.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." Doc

But how you feel love and understand love are two different things.