Quotes About Empathy

Los animales- dice el Eslabón Perdido - son nuestra forma de definir a los humanos. Sin animales no habría humanidad.

VÅ¡ak vám to je jasné. Nejde o to, kolik toho znáte. Jde o to, s kým vÅ¡ím se znáte.

Para acalmar essa garota e fazê-la ouvir, conto a ela a história do meu peixinho. Esse é o peixinho número 641 em uma vida repleta de peixinhos dourados. Meus pais me deram o primeiro para me ensinar como amar e cuidar de outra criaturinha viva de Deus. Seiscentos e quarenta peixinhos depois, a única coisa que sei é que tudo que você ama vai morrer.

I am totally Joe's Gallbladder.

Wie friedlich ist eine Welt, wo jeder Anstoß erregt und niemand Anstoß nimmt.

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... 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.

Ich mag zwar Ich sein, aber das könnte mir nun wirklich nicht passieren, DU zu sein.

Öldür kendini, diyorum. Öldür kendini. Öldür kendini. K?z?n biri aray?p, Ölmek insan?n can?n? çok yakar m?? diye soruyor. Bak tatl?m, diyorum, evet yakar ama, yaÅŸamaya devam etmek çok daha fazla ac?t?r. Sadece merak etmiÅŸtim diyor. KardeÅŸim geçen hafta intihar etti de. Çev. Funda Uncu

Instead of writing about a character, write from within the character.

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them.

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

It's crazy, but you invest all your emotion in just this one tiny goldfish, even after six hundred and forty goldfish, and you can´t just let the little thing starve to death.

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

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

Por eso yo apreciaba tanto los grupos de apoyo, porque la gente, cuando cree que te estás muriendo, te presta toda su atención.

They don't ask, How do we stop bullies? Instead those assholes say, How can we get these stupid kids to stop painting bull's-eyes on their foreheads? They put the blame on the victims, not the victimizers.

Books were usually a way for her to power her own brain down and borrow someone else's for a while.

That's a lesson we could stand to learn. Imperials are just like us. Some of them, at least. It's easy to label those who serve the Galactic Empire as pure evil, all enemy, but truth is, a lot of those who do so were either sold a bill of lies, or forced to by threat of pain or death.

he'd subsumed a whole new identity. Into each world he went, he became someone slightly new to appeal to the Oliver of that place: sculpting himself into a key that fit into the hole in every Oliver's heart.

You can't be friends with a droid.

Why … wouldn't I? People are people. You ever … look at a YouTube comments section? You'd … want everyone dead … too.

Good story thrives on protagonists in pain.

When we're good to each other, the world is good, Marcy. It's as simple as a sunset. We help them, they help us. If we can't live like that, then what's the point of living at all?

That was key, he long felt, to an informed society, one that cleaved to both empathy and critical thinking: access to information.