Quotes About Empathy

I think that if one is seeking to build a truly satisfying relationship, the best way of bringing this about is to get to know the deeper nature of the person and relate to her or him on that level, instead of merely on the basis of superficial characteristics.

You don't have to be crazy to act crazy. You just have to know what crazy people act like. And I had plenty of experience watching crazy people.

It is important for leaders to know their stories; to get them straight; to communicate them effectively, particularly to those who are in the thrall of rival stories; and, above all, to embody in their lives the stories that they tell.

Perhaps nature rations tears. That would be very sensible. You are born with three million one hundred and seventy-two potential tears, and you can use them up by the time you are eighteen or you can conserve them.

Only the very great take pleasure in the glory of others." "Oh?" He had forgotten entirely his earlier irritation. Now he smiled at the manner in which she complimented herself and himself, the two bracketed.

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.

I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.

The less a person understands his own feelings, the more he will fall prey to them. The less a person understands the feelings, the responses, and the behavior of others, the more likely he will interact inappropriately with them and therefore fail to secure his proper place in the world.

There is a limit to the development of the intellect but none of that of the heart

Do you ask 'Nu' of? Or do you ask, transitively? 'Nu?' he asked. And is it even a question in the accepted sense? 'Nu,' he said. Would that have been better? Nu, meaning how are things with you, but also I know how things are with you.

But what is the imagination for if not tto grasp how the world feels to those who don't think what you think?

I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.

But the shouts and smell of smoke had a powerful effect on me. I don't say they excited me, but they gave a sort of universality to what I was feeling. I am who I am because I am not them - well, I was not alone in feeling that. We were all who we were because we were not them. So why did that translate into hate? I don't know, but when everyone's feeling the same thing it can appear to be reasonableness.

Ludzkie istoty rzadko s? tak niebezpieczne jak wtedy, kiedy rozp?ywaj? si? nad dobroci? w?asnych intencji.

It is from his grandmother that Henry learns that punctuation can be a weapon. With a comma you can hurt someone.

You should never envy anyone. One day you might be in that person's position and it might not be so nice.

You have a problem, just ask yourself one simple question: What would Ray Charles do in a situation like this?

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

A poem reaches out exactly halfway, then you reach out halfway, then see what happens. If your thinking's willful and generous toward a poem, the poem'll be equally those things back. As for meaning, it'll mean something different to each person.

I've never thought of the third place just as a physical environment. For me, the third place has always been a feeling. An emotion. An aspiration that all people can come together and be uplifted as a result of a sense of belonging. This is the cornerstone of our business, yes, but "belonging" is also a basic human right, which should be afforded all members of a society.

Ihave come to believe that people must not stand by in the face of human distress and broken systems. And if these two predicaments are intertwined—if human suffering is the result of others abdicating their responsibilities, or showing a lack of respect for another person—it becomes what can only be described as an injustice.

No business can do well for its shareholders without first doing well by all the people its business touches.

For me, the idea of a "third place" is not just something that exists between four walls. It is a mind-set. A way to exist in the world. That's why I set out to build a profitable business that also expressed a core ethos: that people of all kinds can come together and uplift one another.

Empathy and emotions do not equate to knowledge or true understanding about others' circumstances.