Quotes About Empathy

Ako želite da budete sre?ni, ne treba po svaku cenu da bežite od nesre?e. Pre bi trebalo da gledate kako i zahvaljuju?i kome, nesre?u možete prevazi?i. ~ Boris Sirilnik ~

The players are made of skin and bone and they too like this contact. Even if it is a slap. Pep touches constantly, hugs, pushes them, to motivate them, to keep them on their toes, to make them feel loved.

Eso es lo malo de que los amigos nos conozcan tanto, nos adivinan desde lejos.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

What would feeling like somebody feel like? To suddenly exist not only in your world, but someone else's as well?

Men meet a woman who's mute, they take advantage of her. Never once on a date did a man ever try to communicate, not really. They just grabbed, and took, as if she, voiceless as an animal, was an animal. This is better. The man from the dream, hazy as he is, is better.

You never truly know who you are until you get really, deeply hurt.

If past wrongs are not addressed, and dealt with honestly, dark spirits will erupt through the unhealed seam. It is the same for cities and towns as it is for people.

Monsters are the patron saints of otherness.

El tartamudeo lo desarrollan los dulces y sensibles, los que no pueden impedir verlo y sentirlo todo.

He understands. He trusts. He, like she, has nothing left to lose.

I wanted to show that men and women can be friends without having a relationship.

Para una mujer resultaba tan sencillo lastimar a un hombre: bastaba pisotear sus sueños.

They often took a difficulty I had and turned it into an amusing little anecdote. They would take a deadly seriousness, my seriousness, and turn it into a great laugh that they would then let out into the room. What kind of people were they to do that? The amusing anecdote had sharp edges, flew into me and scratched my soul.

Yudhishthira taught me that moral integrity begins with the awareness of other human beings. The reality of others looms large in Yudhishthira's consciousness—it is the shining feature of his personality,

If a good person suffers, then the bad person should suffer even more: this is an idea that seems embedded in the human psyche. Consciously one denies it, of course, and proclaims piously, 'I'm not the sort of person who holds grudges.' Yet one unconsciously applauds when the villain 'gets what he deserves'. Wanting to punish a villain or seeing him punished is ubiquitous in literature, movies and politics.

He who regards all men as equals is religious.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. —Winston Churchill

La vida ya es demasiado triste como para amargarla además con odio.

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.

Lástima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuándo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuándo es dignidad! What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it's 'dignity'!

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.