Quotes About Empathy

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

para mim, o amor por uma pessoa é o respeito pelos mesmos sentimentos individuais - o respeito à privacidade e a aceitação dos defeitos.

It's not about you. It's about them.

When Roger apologized for the affair, I told him, "It is not for me to judge," Coleman recalled. "I said if I were to be judged on the merits of my life, I would burn an eternity in hell. Roger winced.

What you think about me says more about you than it does about me.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

Deep, choking sobs that sounded like his soul was being torn apart. He clutched at his father and Max took his in his arms. "I am so sorry dad." Kyle sobbed. "And I forgive you because that is what fahters do" said Max

They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no-one understands you. —CHARLES CHAPLIN TO ALBERT EINSTEIN AT THE 1931 PREMIERE OF CITY LIGHTS

even today, when I have a cold, it is the worst cold in the history of the house.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.

I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through. Looking into their eyes I see them running too.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.

There was always a big party on the night before anyone left for the States. They called it an American wake, because the whole community stayed up to keep the emigrants company through their last night on the island, just as they would have bidden farewell to a soul beginning the long journey towards eternity. There was almost no chance that anyone present would ever see the departed again

Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be said?

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock someone down to feel tall.

But though love laughs at difference in age, friendship, especially between two women, is more acutely conscious of it.

A sense of share is not a bad moral compass.

de que o objetivo do ambientalismo não tem a ver com tentar usar menos, mas antes com tentar ser mais. Não tem a ver com beneficiarmos de menos coisas, mas antes com darmos aquilo que de melhor há dentro de nós. O ambientalismo não tem a ver com o ambiente. Tem a ver com as pessoas. Tem a ver com o sonho de uma vida melhor para as pessoas.

I made the mistake of thinking that condemning other people's misdeeds somehow made me virtuous.

I made the mistake of thinking that condemning other people's misdeed somehow made me virtuous.

Cruelty could be designed-out. It's advertising is deficient.

The beauty of Radical Forgiveness lies in the fact that it does not require us to recognize what we project. We simply forgive the person for what is happening at the time. In doing so, we automatically undo the projection, no matter how complicated the situation. The reason for this is simple, in that the person represents the original pain that caused us to project in the first place. As we forgive him or her, we clear that original pain.

Somchai Asanajinda says as long as your heart can still beat for one, it can always beat for two.