Quotes About Empathy

Mum, you just said it yourself: you can't save everybody. She nodded several times and brought a napkin to her damp cheeks. That's true, she said. Very true. But at the same time, can't you always do more?

I'm a sentimental humanist: I believe art is here to help, even if the help is painful—especially then.)

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

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. Like Garibaldi biscuits.

Othering whoever has othered us, in reverse, is no liberation — as cathartic as it may feel. Liberation is liberation: the recognition of somebody in everybody.

Please. Do me this one, great favor, Jones. If ever you hear anyone, when you are back home—if you, if we, get back to our respective homes—if ever you hear anyone speak of the East," and here his voice plummeted a register, and the tone was full and sad, "hold your judgment. If you are told 'they are all this' or 'they do this' or 'their opinions are these,' withhold your judgment until all the facts are upon you.

He had an absolute empathy for everybody, Magid. And it was an unbelievable pain in the arse.

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

Harry surely hadn't meant to tell his only son that you couldn't accept black people to develop mentally like white people do. He had meant to say : I love you, I love my grandchildren, please stay another day.

Children are so narcissistic: nothing about other people ever really occurs to them, least of all about their parents.

i libri sono specchi in cui troviamo solo ciò che abbiamo dentro di noi, e (...) la lettura coinvolge mente e cuore, due merci sempre più rare.

Beatriz Aquilar : i libri sono specchi in cui troviamo solo ciò che abbiamo dentro di noi, e (...) la lettura coinvolge mente e cuore. - L'ombra del vento

Keista, kaip mes smerkiame kitus, užmirš? vargan? savo b?t?, kol j? netenkame, kai juos iš m?s? atima mirtis. Atima, nes jie niekada mums nepriklaus?...

What is happening in Africa (& elsewhere) is because the men did not listen to the women & the women did not listen to the women either & because the people did not listen to each other & themselves & because nobody listened to the children & the poets. - Alice Walker

I won't always say the right thing, I won't always make you smile, I won't always make you happy.....but I will always try, and i will always be here for you....waiting for you to open your eyes and realize how much I love you.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him." —Brendan Francis

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love." —Anaïs Nin

People put up walls. Not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down." —Socrates

It's not about who hurt you and broke you down. It's about who was always there and made you smile again." —Unknown

Dad, I don't know women very well, but I reckon they live by their hearts. You

Bern, it's divine to forgive your enemies. 'Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath.

He was thinking that if he had his life to live over again he would begin at once to find happiness in other people's happiness.

Când iubeÈ™ti pe cineva îi simÈ›i durerea.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.