Quotes About Empathy

A friend. Cery's shoulders drooped. Closing his eyes, he let out a long sigh.

Injustice always captures the attention of the young,' she said. 'But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.

them. When we see love in action, compassion in the face of hatred or anger, forgiveness in the face of pain and suffering, we are looking at and experiencing the kingdom of God right where we stand.

Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one

It's harder to get outside your own head than you think.

It's so easy for people that aren't there to say, 'I wouldn't have done that,' " Francona says. "Well, you know what? You didn't earn the right to make that decision. He did.

While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend.

my own feelings, which had been quite jubilant on the receipt of his letter, were sad and depressed. I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse

I am not aware of ever having used a profane expletive in my life; but I would have the charity to excuse those who may have done so, if they were in charge of a train of Mexican pack mules at the time.

Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did, and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity.

He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

I don't believe one writes for oneself. I think that writing is an act of love- you write in order to give something to someone else. To communicate something. to have other people share your feelings. This problem of how long your work survives is fundamental for a novelist or a poet. One hopes for a sense of continuity.

Privado de vuestra mirada soy ciego pues no me veis, mudo pues no me hablàis, desmemoriado pues de mì no acordàis

Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear.

I didn't like being his dear friend, but I went on listening to him. Giulio/Giulia

No cierres mis labios abriendo los tuyos.

Pe de o parte, ne putem recunoaÈ™te pe noi înÈ™ine numai în prezenÈ›a Altuia, È™i pe acest fapt se sprijin? regulile de convieÈ›uire È™i înÈ›elegere. Dar mai degrab? îl g?sim insuportabil pe acest Altul, pentru c? într-o m?sur? oarecare nu este noi. AÈ™a c?, reducându-l la un duÈ™man, ne construim infernul nostru pe p?mânt.

Do not laugh too much at your fellows. Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear.

That must be it, you were compassionate about the little things and cynical about the big things.

Intentar entender al otro significa destruir los clichés que lo rodean, sin negar ni borrar su alteridad. Pero

Ama baz? ÅŸeyler yürekle sezilir.

Porque el ser humano, para saber quién es, necesita la mirada del otro, y cuanto más le ama y le admira el otro, más se reconoce (o cree reconocerse);

Los franciscanos piden la pobreza para sí mismos, pero nunca la han pedido para los otros. No