Quotes About Empathy

Kay Douglas's book is the most supportive, realistic, and practical guide for abused women that I have encountered. A woman with this book in her hands is on the path to a new life. The author really 'gets it' about what it takes to deal with a destructive partner and takes the reader step-by-step from the beginnings of grasping what is happening to her all the way to healing once the relationship has ended. Outstanding!

It is in your primary relationship that you should be able to feel the most sure of receiving kindness and support, of being carefully listened to, of being seen and understood.

And the most frequent response of all: "Jesus, I wouldn't do that. I would never do something like that to her.

While the two of them might never be the closest of friends, they had developed a connection that was important for each of them. When they'd needed someone, they'd found one another.

A man's heart away from nature becomes hard; lack of respect for growing, living things soon leads to a lack of respect for humans too.

As a child I understood how to give, I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. -

To get to know someone new, you need to touch a lot.

Perhaps the corollary would be just as good an opening for a tale; not "long ago, when animals could speak," but "Long ago, when people could listen.

Self-seeking breeds loneliness; self-forgetfulness breeds fullness.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

And, everyone knows, to tolerate a person telling you about his childhood it is necessary to be in love with him.

But near the end of the hour I was also telling him how face-to-face with another person I couldn't speak. There was always a wall.

This woman had a loving heart and a capacity to understand another fallible human being.

I will tell him something one of the characters said and I can see he is ready to laugh even before I tell it, though so often, in the case of other subjects, he is not terribly interested in what I say to him, especially when he sees that I am becoming enthusiastic.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

Não é uma forma de esconder seu sentimento de superioridade? Ter pena dos outros não é se sentir superior a esses outros?

Descobri que ajuda muito na convivência com os outros. Às vezes a gente não sabe o que dizer e então acende um cigarro. Não sabe como começar um assunto e lá vem um cigarro, todos esses pequeninos gestos são importantes para os tímidos. E eu sou tímida.

Só Jesus compreende e perdoa, só Ele que já curtiu como nós, Jesus, Jesus, como eu te amo! Vou pôr um disco em sua homenagem, espera, ofereço música assim como Abel oferecia ovelhas, é lógico que ovelha é muito mais importante mas Jesus sabe que tenho horror de sangue, minhas oferendas só podem ser musicais. Jimi Hendrix?