Quotes About Empathy

Ese grado de sensibilidad, uno tiene que y uno puede desarrollarlo. La capacidad de amar es infinita, es infinita, infinita. Desarrollémosla.

Hoerenpraat natuurlijk, maar toch lief.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

From time immemorial, healthy people have held sick people hostage…I believe hostage-holding of the sick is immoral, fundamentally unethical, and needs to be stopped.

It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it.

And though he liked drawing trees he liked most of all to be with trees. He would climb them, lean against them, even talk to them. It saddened him to discover the not everyone shared his feelings towards them.

The most generous person is the one who offers help to those who do not expect him to help.

If it is possible to be homesick for the world, even places one has never been and knows one will never see, this book is the child of such homesickness.

If your heart isn't in the right place, you're no different from the beasts in the forest.

What kind of soldier carries music instead of guns?

Help others find their way, their own values, and guide them through life's ups and downs.

Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot

People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.

With plenty of practice, we have learnt how to make a ritual of grief, even for those we have never met and know little about.

Mental illness and substance abuse destroyed my family. Watching and caring for loved ones battle these diseases shaped my life. Now I have an opportunity and the platform to change the conversation around mental health from one that condemns and diminished those suffering, to one of empathy and support.

I understand how insubstantial this seems, how minor: man buys a coffee in French! But it was Gégé and Jean-Claude, and my own Walker, who reminded me how to do that simpest thing. They reminded me not to be ashamed. That is never a small accomplishment.

I looked across to his picture on the wall, the one that showed him with a pained look on this face, with a bleeding heart painted on his chest. I knew exactly how he felt.

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

No te intereses por nadie, Rafael; es mejor ser cruel con los demás que no tener que sufrir después calvario, pasión y muerte.

For many millennia men faced their enemies; they sat or walked side by side as they hunted game with their friends." So unless you want your words to send him into battle, use evolution to your advantage and have a sex talk with him while taking a walk or drive, or just sitting comfortably next to each other on the couch. Prepare