Quotes About Empathy

Reasons can always be justified Brahma. The biggest error in life is to believe that your reasons are right and the other person's reasons are wrong.

My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.

Perdoname también el que te quiera como a mí mismo; porque me soy infiel, porque me engaño".

Me tienes en tus manos y me lees igual que un libro. Sabes lo que yo ignoro y me dices las cosas que no me digo.

Ultimately, our obsession with celebrities isn't about them; it's about us and our needs. Many of us look at these people—who have glamour, beauty, wealth, and youth—and familiarize ourselves with them until they begin to feel like real people in our lives. We discuss them at work, in the park, and over dinner. We develop feelings for them. We love them, or hate them, or pity them, or profess not to care but secretly do.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Mariah was the kindest person I had ever known. Her concern was not an unexpected part of her; it could be said that her kindness was the result of her comfortable circumstances, but many people in her position were not as kind and considerate as she was. And that was the reason I couldn't bring myself to point out to her that if all the things she wanted to save in the world were saved, she might find herself in reduced circumstances;

It wasn't her fault. It wasn't my fault. But nothing could change the fact that where she saw beautiful flowers I saw sorrow and bitterness.

Look at me all flesh and bones, head, arms, and legs, do you see a Monkey in my human flesh, and bones, because I am Black. Oh No No, said the Monkey, I don't talk."

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

Sympathy—not here a form of compassion, but rather a kind of attunement to the states of mind of other people—is absolutely central to the world of the passions as Hume describes it. It gives us the vivid, sometimes pleasurable, sometimes painful, sense we always have of ourselves as standing in relation with other people.

T]he minds of men are mirrors to one another' (T 365), Hume remarked, and just as mirrors are not in control of the reflections they give, so also our feelings, and beliefs, cannot help but be impinged upon by the feelings and beliefs of those around us.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice

I understand, Catherine," he said. What does he mean that he understands, Catherine wondered. Something I failed to hear, no doubt, she thought, though their words had been so few that she could not imagine what. But she quickly decided not to exasperate him ;by a question; she was sure of his kind intention, and deeply touched by it.

Yes, for every child, rich or poor, there's a time of running through a dark place; and there's no word for a child's fear, and no ears to head it if there was a word, and no one to understand it if they heard. God save the little children! They abide and they endure.

and every time, he was still more acutely aware of their eyes on him and of the thoughts behind their eyes

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is the one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped or shaped towards, in the individual, and in the race.

And it was respect he needed, infinitely more than love. Just not to have to worry about whether people respect you. Not ever to have to feel that people are being nice to you because they are sorry for you, or afraid of you.

I think that love must be the ability to suspend one's intelligence for the sake of something. At the basis of love therefore must live imagination.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

Only as men succeed in seeing no evil in others will they become free from sin, and sorrow, and suffering.