Quotes About Empathy

Like Bertrand Russell, I feel a great sadness for the human race. Unlike Bertrand Russell, I can't do long division.

La pregunta Escena II LINCOLN: La guerra no tiene nada que ver. Es mi sensibilidad hacia los sentimientos humanos.

She said, My whole life, I've never been anyone's top priority. I, who had been the top priority of a large, extended family, the apple of many loving eyes, tried to put myself in Soon-Yi's place and decided to make her my top priority. I decided I would dote on her, wait on her, spoil her, celebrate her, never deny her anything she wanted, and somehow try and make up for the horrific first twenty-two years of her life

Indifference to me equals evil.

I'd rather hurt Lee a little, than destroy Hannah.

All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well meant.

All of this talking about what's up in the sky, or down in hell, for that matter, isn't half as important as what's right here, right now, right in front of your eyes. Things are tough. Folks broke. Kids hungry. Sick. Everything. And people has got to have more faith in one another, believe in each other. There's a spirit of some kind we've all got. That's got to draw us all together.

All of my words, if not well put or well taken, are well meant.

Everyone's needs are different, so in nurturing a relationship it is important for you to find out what the needs of your mate are and to provide for them.

Sabe que una injusticia descarada duele más que un castigo merecido.

me quede pensando en lo lindo que habría sido todo si yo no fuera yo, ni a ti te diera tanto por ser como tú.

The suffering of the leader is always lightened by his glory. As much as possible, you must let others share in your glory, so that they never lose heart." I

I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.

Your eyes aren't empty mirrors - You reflect human beings. I hope this doesn't make you mortally unhappy.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.

We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.

There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements...where an animal takes a human being or another animal to be one of it's kind.

Kalau nyawa kita sendiri terancam, kemampuan kita berempati jadi tumpul oleh hasrat egois yang amat sangat untuk bertahan hidup.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

His heart is expended that way, of loving the single, particular individual. He loved Clara with every fibre of his being, but now he has nothing left. Or rather, he has learned to live with her absence, and he has no wish to fill that absence; that would be like losing her a second time. Instead he would prefer to be kind to everyone, a less personal but broader love.

He was a man whose profession it was to love, and he would offer comfort and guidance to the best of his ability. I

Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defence, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.