Quotes About Empathy

Don't you worry about other people's problems.

Eguchi sintió una oleada de compasión por ella. Se le ocurrió una idea: los viejos tienen la muerte, y los jóvenes el amor, y la muerte viene una sola vez y el amor muchas.

Estoy intentando pensar como los ancianos que están más tristes que yo

If man had a tough,hairy hide like a bear,his world would be different indeed- It was through a thin , smooth skin that man loved.

People use each other as a healing for their pain. They put each other on their existential wound, on the eye, on the cunt, on mouth and open hand. They hold each other and won't let go.

Hurt people hurt people.

Try to say nothing negative about anybody. a) for three days b) for forty-five days c) for three months See what happens to your life.

Writers are engineers of human souls.

Behind every good politician is a soft, cuddly teddy bear

All kinds of daily interactions would be altered if we suspended our insufficiently informed conclusions over why others act the way they do.

don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinéma vérité, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt.

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a little condescension; with low expectation of the other's rationality; with the knowledge that the other will find what they say hard to understand, that it will go beyond them (not so much over the head as between the legs); and with the feeling that they must arrive with something the other will like, something suitable.

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

you're lucky that you find life so easy, Felix. You're lucky that you're happy, that you know how to be happy, that you're a good person- and you want everyone to be happy and good because you are, and to find things easy because you do. Do it ever occur to you some people might not find life as easy to live as you do?

There are so many different ways to be poor

Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.

Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy—it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is.

When in the presence of a child, get on the floor.

But it's hard, when you're at a loose end yourself, to be happy for others

If she was more curt with her own family than a homeless man this only suggested that generosity was not an infinite quantity and had to be employed strategically where it was most needed.

Yes, sometimes it's the strangers that sustain you.

We don't always have to judge difference or categorize it or criminalize it. We don't have to take it personally. We can also just let it be.