Quotes About Empathy

The function of hate, as Sarai saw it, was to stamp out compassion—to close a door in one's own self and forget it was ever there. If you had hate, then you could see suffering—and cause it—and feel nothing except perhaps a sordid vindication.

These weren't her folk, but . . . they were, and maybe that meant that anyone could be anyone's, which was a sort of nice thing to think, with the world falling apart.

La clemencia engendra clemencia, igual que las masacres devienen en masacres. No podemos esperar que el mundo sea mejor de lo que lo hacemos.

For that 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 desire each other's destruction, but in our despair, we are lost in the same darkness, breathing the same air as we choke on our grief.

Posso não ter meus próprios sonhos – disse ela, como se não importasse muito –, mas tenho os sonhos de todo o mundo.

La autoestima es fundamental en la conquista del éxito. Si no te gustas a ti mismo, ¿cómo pretendes gustar a los demás? De nada sirve cubrirse de oro o vestir ropas de calidad si la autoestima es baja. El problema es que nos han educado de una manera que nos pone difícil gustarnos a nosotros mismos. Nuestra estructura mental nos hace excesivamente críticos.

No es posible ayudar a las personas haciendo por ellas lo que ellas deberían hacer por sí mismas. Abraham Lincoln

There are no poor men. Not even among the wretches

Giving and taking comfort in everything they could give and take, every part of them sought to make themselves one till it was impossible for either to know the comforter from the one being comforted.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

To live in peace we have to forgive each other and ourselves, regularly.

Perjalanan: melatih diri untuk tetap menjaga jarak seraya berbagi begitu banyak.

Nggak ada yang lebih menyedihkan di dunia ini, daripada permintaan maaf yang nggak pada tempatnya.

Yang kita dapat ketika kita menghirup udara adalah kasih sayang yang mahabesar dan yang tidak meminta kembali. Dan yang dapat ketika kita makan adalah jerih payah orang lain yang tidak kita kenal.

You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry

Don't be so eager to judge, Suzette. You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking.

When you're among peaceful, generous, happy people, you're inclined to feel happy and peaceful yourself. When you're among angry, aggressive people, you tend to become like them. The human mind is like a mirror. A mirror does not discriminate but simply reflects whatever's before it, no matter whether it's horrible or wonderful.

Even when you do not feel big hearted, you can give yourself permission to act that way.

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

'Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

Close friendships are one of life's miracles--that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.

Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.