Quotes About Empathy

Les bêtes sont ce que l'homme a le plus méconnu et le plus opprimé

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

Knowing too much is very apt to make us troublesome to other people

If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

All things are in common among friends.

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

O that all human hearts might join the strain; Then Hate, and Bigotry, and Sin would die; Then Peace would reign and wear its olive crown, And War with blood-stained feet no longer track Earth's fair domain, or wave its crimson flag. Then Pride would lay its flaunting mantle by; The cry of Hunger cease--the oppressor's rod Would scourge no more, but man be linked to man In one unbroken chain of brotherhood.

a good story can heal. I

Coexistence, rather, should be the active practice of becoming familiar, whether through exposure to works of imagination or through personal interaction, with people who are different.

A guy should find out what the woman likes. Every woman is different, so you can't just assume what works on one will work on another.

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.

Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again...

There are other ways of showing someone you love them, such as fetching them out of Hell.

I said I was sorry." "Be sorry, then. Just be sorry somewhere else.

I don't know your customs, but here, if you don't want to frighten someone, you don't go looming over their sleeping body with knives .

We're all on the same side. Even her. You can be on the same side and have different ideas.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

For an instant, at least, they seemed one and the same, as though all anguish exists in the same deep well, no matter what loss or misfortune leads us to it. We might be at odds, hate each other, and desired each others destruction, but in our despair, we are lost in the same darkness, breathing the same air as we choke on our grief.

Like attracts like, beauty finds beauty, and freaks look on from the smoking section, aching.