Quotes About Empathy

There's no point in hate, Sophie. It'll only damage you.

Quanto mais uma mulher gosta ou detesta outra, mais sabe acerca dela.

Make you wonder, when you're feeling low, what it is about yourself they can't love. I know how it is, and how hard it is to accept someone who should love you absolutely, doesn't. Or not enough. But it wasn't me, and it wasn't you. It was them, the lack in them.

you stepped back, you squared your shoulders, and you showed you were willing to face what life had dealt you. That takes courage, Margo—much more—than leaping into the void. I had people to turn to. So do we all. It's only fools and egotists who think no one will be there to lend a hand. And bigger food and bigger egotists who don't reach out.

A woman could always count on her girl pals, Hope thought as she turned to the door. They never let you down.

L]oneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding views which others find inadmissible."29

If for no other reason, God sometimes allows us to suffer pain so that we can comfort others suffering in a like situation.

Love never forces itself on another's will. So

You can love completely without complete understanding.

I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.

you can love completely without complete understanding. That I have known and preached. my father said.

For all of us, though, it is much easier to read the waters of tragedy. (64)

Help," he said, "is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.

Then he asked, "After you have finished your true stories sometime, why don't you make up a story and the people to go with it? "Only then will you understand what happened and why. "It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.

make a fundamental change in the relationship between nations, organisations, religions and politics start to listen, learn and offer badly needed resources stop trying to impose our will on the rest of the world train our armies to offer constructive resolution to conflict not destructive work on our inner life and develop our humanity.

Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt.

We serve the world as one beggar telling other beggars where we found bread.

We all eventually become whatever we pretend to hate.

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.

I care about strangers when they're abstractions but feel almost nothing when they are literally in front of me. They seem like unnamed characters in a poorly written novel about myself, which was poorly written by me.

Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless… I never have any idea how other people feel; they always appear fine to me. But if somebody had pointedly played Pat Benatar's "Love is a Battlefield" that night, I'm sure I could have constructed some empathy.

If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can't just try to see the other side of an argument. That's not enough. You have to go all the way.