Quotes About Empathy

nada enlaza tanto los corazones como llorar juntos.

Cuando por casualidad encuentro alguno que ha escapado a las instrucciones comunes, o que al no conocer mi cara no me muestra ninguna aversión, el honesto saludo de ese solo me restituye de la actitud arisca de los demás. Los olvido para no ocuparme sino de él, y me imagino que tiene una de esas almas como la mía, donde el odio no podría penetrar.

No se deben dar preceptos, sino hacer de manera que los encuentre el alumno.

Nada hay que influya más sobre mi corazón que un acto de valor hecho a propósito, en favor del débil injustamente oprimido. En

Je sais et je sens que faire du bien est le plus vrai bonheur que le cÅ"ur humain puisse goûter.

Ne veut-on pas au moins apprendre de l'objet qu'on aime si l'on est aimé ?

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

c'est que si chaque homme pouvait lire dans les cœurs de tous les autres, il y aurait plus de gens qui voudraient descendre que de ceux qui voudraient monter.

Es la humanidad pura la que me da cobijo.

Love is love, seems to me. As long as what you love isn't armed robbery, or bombing airplanes, or kidnapping little children. -Crystal

Instead of getting at the other side with something just as bad as they did to you - or something worse - you do something good. Or at least you keep yourself from doing something bad

But how could you? said Lina. When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them? You wouldn't want to, Maddy said. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

Lina didn't really feel cold but she did feel sad, which was in a way the same.

Empathy is not enough, there must be advocacy. - Jeanne Jones in MIXED: Exploring What It Means To Be Blended In America

You're just going to bear witness to his life. I think sometimes that's the greatest gift we can give one another.

When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?

You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals.

Who do you want to win this war?' 'I am interested to know where you will be going when you leave.' 'Mr. Wakatsuki, if I have repeat each one of these questions we will be here forever. Who do you want...?' 'When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?

That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it.

Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival.

I hate Erma, I told Mom... You have to show compassion for her... She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them, she said. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. Oh yeah? I said. How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality? Hitler loved dogs, Mom said without hesitation.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.