Quotes About Empathy

And, it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everyone.

By the middle of the novel I decided that what two people don't say to each other forges a stronger bond than honest.

There are lots of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

But someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

Give me tolerance. Flash. Give me understanding. Flash.

No man has to be a rocket surgeon to recognize love.

La gente, cuando cree que te estás muriendo, te presta toda su atención.

Protagonista: Por favor, doctor. Estoy sufriendo. —Doctor: ¿Quieres ver sufrimiento? Visita el pabellón de cáncer testicular. Eso es dolor.

Ben ÅŸiddeti göz ard? etmeye programlanm??, duygusuz bir laboratuvar hayvan? deÄŸilim ama o anda akl?ma ilk olarak kan lekesinin üzerine soda sürmek için çok geç kal?nmam?? olabileceÄŸi geliyor.

THIS IS WHY I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

but my mom's going to hate being hated. she's a skinny beautiful lady with perfect hair; she's just not equipped to deal with hate.

Din acest motiv copiii copiilor copiilor copiilor nostri vor avea si ei razboaie si foamete si boli. Pentru ca ne iubim suferinta. Ne iubim dramele, dar nu recunoastem niciodata.

Jump to how life was when you were a baby and you could only eat baby food. You'd stagger over to the coffee table. You're up on your feet and you have to keep waddling along on those Vienna sausage legs or fall down. Then you get to the coffee table and bounce your big soft baby head on the sharp corner. You're down, and man, oh, man, it hurts. Still it isn't anything tragic until Mom and Dad run over. Oh, you poor, brave thing. Only then do you cry.

La única razón por la que preguntamos a la gente qué tal le ha ido el fin de semana es para poder contar cómo nos ha ido el nuestro.

Making others right redeems their paltry and pointless educations. Making others right makes them love you

You can't fool people into loving you.

Cuando la gente cree que te estás muriendo es cuando en verdad te escuchan, en lugar de estar esperando su turno para hablar

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

To mezi námi není ani tak láska, jako spíÅ¡ sdílená citová invalidita.

T]he only way a person had to process an experience so troubling was by sharing it.

Adulthood Begins the moment someone tells you, You need to be more sensitive.

It's hard to explain to someone who's never had the experience—the unmistakable, life-altering moment when you read a book and realize that someone out in the world has read your mind and put into words all the thoughts and ideas crashing around inside your own head. For me, it was like Don Swanstrom

People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves.