Quotes About Empathy

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made.

Cred c? cel mai mare dar pe care l-a? putea primi de la cineva este s? fiu v?zut?, ascultat?, in?eleas? ?i atins?.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Il est difficile de voir quelqu'un obtenir ce que le monde désire, et de devoir le consoler, en prime.

La prunelle de mes yeux.» L'expression peine à rendre ce qui lie le parent à son nouveau-né. La prunelle de ses yeux, on pouvait la lui arracher sans qu'il tombe – la moelle de mes os s'approcherait davantage, pour dire que ça parcourt tout ce qu'on est, et qu'il s'agit du lien qui s'établit, avant même qu'on soit capable de reconnaître son enfant parmi les autres.

This is important to point out in a women's magazine, as advice to the readers: OK, so rape is sad, but please don't wail, ladies. It's not dignified. Well, fuck you.

Pero, en mi corta experiencia, los clientes estaban llenos de humanidad, de fragilidad, de angustia. Y eso, después, se te queda pegado como un remordimiento.

Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia

C'est quand même épatant, et pour le moins moderne, un dominant qui vient chialer que le dominé n'y met pas assez du sien...

el día que los hombres tengan miedo de que les laceren la polla a golpe de cúter cuando acosen a una chica, seguro que de repente sabrán controlar mejor sus pasiones –masculinas- y comprender lo que quiere decir –no-.

The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.

A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

sacrifice your life for the good of others—this is my wish and blessing.

The unsurrogated narrator has the monumental task of transforming low-level self-interest into the kind of detached empathy required of a piece of writing that is to be of value to the disinterested reader.

Entonces nos sentamos juntas, en silencio, sin implicarnos la una con la otra, solo dos mujeres que escrutan la oscuridad de toda esa vida perdida. Mi madre no parece ni joven ni vieja, solo profundamente absorta por lo terrible de lo que ve ante sí. Y yo no sé qué soy a sus ojos.

i could not but be moved -- by the great and the humble alike -- to pity and admiration for those who demonstrated repeatedly that to ' be and do' is not a given.

My mother was kind," she said. "She had a kind heart. Your mother? She was organized. My mother would sit up with her own kids when they were sick, and she'd sit up with you, too. Your mother would march into the kitchen like a top sergeant and say to my mother, 'Levinson, stop crying, put on a brassiere, fix yourself up.

This is the intimacy that will bind us all our lives, holding us forever to the task implicit in all love relations: how to connect yet not merge, how to respond yet not be absorbed, how to detach but not withdraw.

Come quasi tutti i lettori, a volte ho la sensazione di essere nata leggendo".

Letter writing is not the noble enterprise. Remaining fully expressive is the noble enterprise.