Quotes About Empathy

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

True love exists only among equals, "for love effects a likeness between the lover and the object loved."23 And this supposes an ability to approach others and respect their sensitivities.

Few of us have the power to heal broken legs, but we all have the power to forgive our neighbor. Yet how often do we do so?

She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.

And I certainly wouldn't demonize an entire people on the basis of 3 blurry photos and a few paintings

Quelques secondes plus tard, son père entendit le bruit d'une porte qui se refermait, mais ce n'était pas un claquement de colère : c'était plutôt la séparation que l'on met volontairement, et sans heurt, entre soi-même et ceux que l'on ne parvient plus à comprendre.

Before we can ever learn to love one another as we would hope to do, we must first be willing to see that for too long we have loved only ourselves . . . and that even this has been done poorly.

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion.

Few acts of kindness do as much to make the world a better place as when we choose to consciously bear our own meanness.

Language. The process of sharing with words seemed such a futile exercise sometimes.

We cannot know. But sometimes there is kindness, and sometimes there is love.

Catriana sighed. "I'm hard to make friends with," she said at length. "I doubt it's worth your effort.

What broke her in the end was to see that Dari, moving quietly in the snow, was tracing his flower neatly with a thin branch in the growing dark while tears were pouring down his face without surcease.

those around a dying person, sometimes loving that person, had their own needs, and these were also to be addressed if you were in the world to heal.

The effect of being violently driven from home, and that home being despoiled .... it can go on and on like sea-surf against rocks. On and on within a man or a woman, or within a child as it grows up somewhere else, never sat home, only away .

I am trying to say that what has happened to you is a hard thing, even if there is war somewhere. Even if emperors and kings die. You are entitled to your rage.

People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn't have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don't judge people until you've walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

Everyone is better than you at something. If you have a tough time accepting others, it's probably because you think you're superior to them. However, you're not superior to every person in every way.

Why couldn't we let each other alone? " she asked in a low voice. "We fell in love because we were so different. Then all we did was twist and pull at each other, trying to make changes that couldn't be made—""I know. Why should anyone do that? Why is it that we can't think of any higher destiny for the people we love than that they become just like ourselves?

My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be.

Love is love, whether it goes on two legs or four.