Quotes About Empathy

need for a "speaker for the dead" and for the living.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them—" "You beat them." For

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never knew why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even knew themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way the love themselves.

So, the whole war is because we can't talk to each other. If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

It is astonishing what can be done when people are truly loyal to each other and eager to meet each other's needs.

The stone loves you. Don't you see it? Hasn't it shown you its love all your life?

I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them. I think the Speaker loved Father. Marcão, I mean. I think he understood him and loved him before he spoke." Mother didn't answer, because she knew that it was true. "And I know he loves Grego, and Quara, and Olhado. And Miro, and even Quim. And me. I know he loves me. And when he shows me that he loves me, I know it's true because he never lies to anybody.

Tudo o que fazemos tem um significado, Ender concluiu. Eles rirem. Eu não rir.

Y todo se reduce a esto: en el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero. Creo que es imposible entender realmente a alguien, saber lo que quiere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo. Y entonces, en ese preciso momento, cuando le quiero...

the conversation of the mind was truer than any language, and they knew each other better than they ever could have by use of mere sight and touch.

You are lonely…. And humans are not meant to be alone. It's in our genes. We're social beings. Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I see Ender in you looking out at me. You see Ender in me looking out at you. And yet not one of us is truly him; we are each our own self, all of us strangers on our own road.

You can't defeat a powerful enemy unless you understand him completely, and you can't understand him unless you know the desires of his heart, and you can't know the desires of his heart until you truly love him.

You can deny any sacrifice by claiming that it made the sufferer feel so good to do it that it really wasn't a sacrifice at all, but just another selfish act." Suddenly Planter jumped

When I comfort you, you'll know it. And how will I know? Miro snapped back. Because you'll be comfortable, of course.

It was a new thing in the world, to have someone to talk to who was not substantially yourself.

I don't have any knack for making people cry, Ela,' he answered softly. His voice was a caress. No, stronger, it was like a hand gripping her hand, holding her, steadying her. 'Telling the truth makes you cry.

Ningún ser humano es indigno cuando se comprenden sus motivos. Ninguna vida deja de merecer la pena. Incluso el más malvado de entre los hombres, si conoces su intimidad, tiene algún acto generoso que le redime de sus pecados, aunque sólo sea un poco generoso.

think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

And no matter how well we think we know people, the fact is we're all strangers in the end.

The root of magic is love, the trunk is service.