Quotes About Empathy

Slap Me, But Don`t Hate Me

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Every aspect of life should be judged soberly and objectively. To hate someone just because of this or that religious belief, or because the color of his skin is different from yours – this is contrary to sober human logic. It's the person who matters, not his race, religion or color.

Certo che per sopportarti non è che bisogna essere imbecilli, però aiuta

Con te qualsiasi discorso psicologico è psicoillogico.

Nie nale?y os?dza? ?ycia innych ludzi. Nawet je?eli kto? umar? w m?odym wieku na zapalenie j?der, to mo?e jego los w?a?nie w ten sposób si? dope?ni?.

Adoro mezclarme con la multitud y convertime en un viajero más: alguien totalmente liberado de su propio papel, de esa imagen que uno tiene de sí mismo y que a veces se convierte en una jaula tan estrecha como la del cuerpo mismo.

Le radici dell'orrore sono dappertutto. L'orrore siamo noi.

primo passo di ogni guerra è la disumanizzazione del nemico. Il nemico non è un uomo come te, quindi non ha gli stessi diritti.

Without pandering to your presumed desire to identify with the hero of a story, they made you feel that what mattered to the writer had consequence for you, too.

The theory is simple. Every boy, every man, is really a bit of a golden retriever or a big chocolate Lab. Watch any man's eyes at the bounce of a ball. His head tilts slightly sideways, just a hair, as a primitive focus comes to life.

He said, You know, whoever hurt you dies every time they look in the mirror. That is how they pay." She crossed her arms. "And one day, Maria, you will die too, but there's no reason for you to die every day.

He remembered that these imaginary conversations always began the same way, with the same phrase, the words he believed lay at the core of what any human being ever wants to hear from another, what affection is in its primary essence, what the bonds of friendship and family mean above all else. So he placed his hand gently on Bemm's shoulder and, softly, slowly, spoke the phrase, over and over again, as if it were a prayer, "I am so glad you are here.

You have to want to save someone in order to be saved.

I think that there are reasons people fall in love over and over again. It's that feeling that someone wants to always help you. That feeling that you're never absolutely alone.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

All people under severe stress find a giant friendly dog to be a comfort.

I know i barely talk and pretty much act like I'm not here, but I'm totally here and have a million things to say, and me being me is exactly as insane as you being you.

What if you don't have to be alone in your whale? Like what if that's the point? To find the right person to sit there in the whale with you.

Thomas Kuhn, who once said that he came to realize that he did not understand a thinker until he could see the world through that thinker's eyes.

Love is the most radical experience we can have as subjects.

The cocker had a way of looking up at you, head perked a little to one side, one ear drooping properly forward but the other turned coquettishly back, and with an arch, quizzical expression of countenance which had all the effect of a keen appreciation of the humors of life; and was potent to draw out affection in everyone save those unfortunates condemned by an inscrutable fate to indifference toward man's best friend among brute kind. - Richard Burton, Three of a Kind

Don't be afraid to try. Don't be afraid to fail. Don't be afraid to color your hair. Try to understand where people are coming from. Don't forget that most people are really good at heart. And if you hate your name, change it.

If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight.