Quotes About Empathy

If you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. It

Man is an everlack, an infinite withoutness, afloat on an apparently endless ocean of apparently endless indifference to individual things. Obscurely he sees catastrophes happening to other rafts, rafts that are too distant for him to determine whether they have other humans aboard, but too numerous and too identical for him to presume that they have not.

A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.

It's like football. Two sides may each want to beat the other, they may even hate each other as sides, but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about, then they'd feel together. It's feeling that matters.

If I could put a starving child before him and give it food and let him watch it grow well, I know he'd give money. But everything beyond what he pays for and sees himself get is suspicious to him. He doesn't believe in any other world but the one he lives in and sees. He's the one in prison; in his own hateful narrow present world.

Birine ba??rmak, hala bir ba??n bulunduÄŸunu gösterir.

Besides, in such wells of loneliness is not any coming together closer to humanity than perversity?

Armastan elada täisverelist elu, armastan kõiki, kes lihtsalt ei istu ja jälgi.

Moments like modulations come in human relationships: when what has been until then an objective situation, one perhaps described by the mind to itself in semi-literary terms, one it is sufficient merely to classify under some general heading (man with alcoholic problems, woman with unfortunate past, and so on) becomes subjective; becomes unique; becomes, by empathy, instantaneously shared rather than observed.

Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped.

O s?-mi r?spunzi: "Pentru c? existau copii care mureau de foame în vreme ce tu cântai în soare". Ar trebui deci s? nu mai avem palate, s? nu mai avem gusturi rafinate, bucurii de tot felul, s? nu mai d?m curs imaginaÈ›iei. Lumea trebuie s? aib? un scop ascendent c?tre bucurii mai înalte, fericire mai mult? pentru membrii societ??ii.

Eso de conocer a una persona le hace sentir a una automáticamente cercana a ella. ¡Aunque una desee que estuviese en otro planeta!

Ama Tanr? dualar? duymaz. O'nda duymak veya görmek veya ac?mak veya yard?m etmek gibi insanl?ktan eser yoktur.

I could offer no consolation and I do not think he wanted any.

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life.

Humility is the cornerstone of leadership.

Effective communication is not someone else's job, nor does it begin with being understood. Rather, it's about understanding the other person.

The best thing we can do to get rid of victim thinking in our world is to get rid of it in ourselves. The first QBQ guideline says all

When you think, I really know someone who needs to hear this, stop and think... We tend to teach each others what we need to hear ourselves.

Really you must. Nobody wishes you harm, I'm sure. FALDER. I believe that, Mr. Cokeson. Nobody wishes you harm, but they down you all the same. This feeling — [He stares round him, as though at something closing in] It's crushing me. [With sudden impersonality] I know it is.

It was as if his spirit were in prison. It would have been nice, indeed, to be that water, never staying, passing, passing; or wind, touching everything, never caught. To be able to do nothing without hurting someone - that was what was so ghastly. If only one were like a flower, that just sprang up and lived its life all to itself, and died. But whatever he did, or said now, would be like telling lies, or else being cruel. The only thing was to keep away from people.

we're all so interdependent that in order to look after oneself one's got to look after others no less.

Men need to remember that when women seem upset and talk about problems is not the time to offer solutions; instead she needs to be heard, and gradually she will feel better on her own.