Quotes About Empathy

Perchè se lei non riusciva ad abbandonare un amico, nemmeno lui poteva farlo.

ma Ross ormai conosceva Verity meglio di quanto la conoscessero suo padre e suo fratello. Il suo affetto nasceva lentamente, ma era difficile da spezzare. [...]

You treat everybody like they are your friend. It ain't that way in the world, Forrest. A lot of people ain't your friend. They are just lookin at you the way a banker looks at somebody comes in for a loan—How I'm gonna fleece this rube? That's the way it is, Forrest. That's the way it is.

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

It matters very little whether your judgments of people are true or untrue, and very much whether they are kind or unkind

In war and policy one should always try to put oneself in the position of what Bismarck called "the Other Man". The more fully and sympathetically a Minister can do this the better are his chances of being right. The more knowledge he possesses of the opposite point of view, the less puzzling it is to know what to do. But imagination without deep and full knowledge is a snare

A society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and he is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

One always measures friendship by how they show up in bad weather.

Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.

I know how to handle misfortune, how to take bad news, I can minimize injustice, lighten up God's absence, or pick the widow's veil that suits your face.

Only what is human can truly be foreign. The rest is mixed vegetation, subversive moles, and wind.

Harper saw a dark young guy, trying to stop from laughing so much. By some trick of perspective the tracers illuminated Sam's profile with a halo of fireflies. Something about him touched Harper, so that long after the gunship had swung low and away Sam's image remained on his retina.

Gdybym z ziemi robi? wycieczk? na jak? inn? planet?, lub cho?by na ksi??yc, te? wola?bym by? z kim? - na wszelki wypadek, ?eby moja ludzko?? mia?a si? w czym przejrze?.

Ale mo?e raczej nale?a?oby powiedzie?, ?e naczeln?, podstawow? m?k? jest nie co innego, tylko cierpienie, zrodzone z ograniczenia drugim cz?owiekiem, z tego, ?e si? dusimy i d?awimy w ciasnym, w?skim, sztywnym wyobra?eniu o nas drugiego cz?owieka.

For how would he explain to her that the sluggish bilgewater which twice, when he called the paper, lapped the receiver at the other end seemed to evoke the same squelch as her piano-key armpits.

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart takes pity on Leutgeb, ass, ox, and simpleton, at Vienna, March 27, 1783.

Ich möchte Leuchtturm sein in Nacht und Wind – für Dorsch und Stint, für jedes Boot – und ich bin doch selbst ein Schiff in Not!

Half a century after Linnaeus, Samuel Hahnemann, the homeopath, paraphrased the same thought. Coffee creates an artificially heightened sense of being, according to Hahnemann; presence of mind, alertness, and empathy are all elevated more than in a healthy natural condition; but, he goes on, these effects are unhealthy, in that they throw life off its natural rhythm, which consists in an alteration of wakefulness and sleepiness.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.

Recordando a Needleman Needleman no era un hombre fácil de comprender. Su reticencia era tenida por frialdad, pero poseía una gran capacidad de compasión.