Quotes About Empathy

Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something's getting hurt. It

Caesar snorts. 'Maybe it was. Maybe the fat guy was really a suicide arsonist. He crawled up into the chimney and lit himself on fire.' 'Maybe he was just desperate to lose weight,' Paulie adds, and the other guys crack up. 'Enough,' I say. 'Aw, Fitz, you gotta admit it's pretty funny – ' 'Not to that man's parents. Not to his family.

Terkadang kau harus jadi manusia yang buruk demi menjadi ibu yang baik.

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.' I was thirteen, and I didn't know very much about the world, but I knew that if there was that much wisdom in religion, I wanted to be part of it.

She watched Peter's face transform as she spoke, like the change of a season. Why hadn't she taken the time before, when she had it, to tell Peter that she understood?

You've never gone down the street and had someone cross it just because you're black. You've never had someone look at you with disgust because you're holding a baby and you forgot to put on your wedding ring. You want to do something about it-take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots-but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling, Jordan. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it.

Why?" I asked. "What did you ever do to them?" Josek looked down at me. "I exist," he said softly.

If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it and if you didn't, you will never understand.

Just because I get close to something that makes a lot of people uncomfortable doesn't mean I'm special. It just means I am willing to get close to the things that make people uncomfortable.

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing." "What's the difference?" "The best thing is what you think should be done. The rightest thing is what needs to be done—when you think not just of you and how you feel, but also the extra stuff—who else is involved, and what's happened before, and what the rules say.

You know, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears of a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.

You see, I tell myself. Here is proof. I've known Christina my whole life. And yes, maybe there are differences between us—socioeconomic, political, racial—but that doesn't mean we can't connect, human to human, friend to friend.

I've always wondered whether she sees what I do when I look at her.

She'd Shot A Man & Found A Friend - Maggie Allison

You must be exhausted from singing & need to rest your throat. - Trey Nice Way to tell her to shut up - Anna

And as far as being a leader, you do have a certain potential. But it would be along the lines of a teacher or a minister; you would have to lead from empathy, compassion. You have the desire to impose your ideas on other people, but not your will. Which means, you're right, you'll make one hell of a bad officer unless you shape up.

violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.' — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Someone has said that enemies are just people whose stories we don't know. I see a lot of truth in that. The more other people's stories are hidden from us, the easier it is for us to view them as enemies. But, when we begin to learn their stories, we recognize all we share in common with them and we delight in how the unique beauty of their traditions enriches our own lives.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

One of the greatest ways you can affirm value in another person is by giving them the gift of your undivided attention, the kind of attention that says, "I hear what you are saying because I value who you are." You don't have to agree with someone to show them their value as a person. Listening demonstrates that any person you meet is worthy of your respect and attention.

I don't think I'm special. I want you to know that," Odile says sharply. "I don't think I'm better than everybody else.

back of the other person. Unfortunately, I know a lot of people who are reluctant to do this and/or feel very awkward when