Quotes About Empathy

Wer nicht lange und geduldig zuhören kann, der wird am Andern immer vorbeireden und es selbst schließlich gar nicht mehr merken.

Es gibt kaum ein beglückenderes Gefühl, als zu spüren, daß man für andere Menschen etwas sein kann.

the difference between the tolerant and the extremist was not so great. "Looking into the Other, we can always find something of ourselves within.

We call our worst enemies dogs, but they don't deserve it because dogs are the friends of man.

Dogs have something of us in them. Something of God.

Treat no one with disdain; with patience bear Reviling language; with an angry man Be never angry; blessings give for curses.*

What use is a good book...if you cannot share your pleasure in it with another?

O BICHO VI ONTEM um bicho Na imundície do pátio Catando comida entre os detritos. Quando achava alguma coisa, Não examinava nem cheirava: Engolia com voracidade. O bicho não era um cão, Não era um gato, Não era um rato. O bicho, meu Deus, era um homem.

Sé que no tot és pur. Però hi ha una cosa que no puc suportar: el sentiment del meu propi benestar quan els altres, tants d'altres!, encara no han pogut trobar el seu.

If you do not recognize your assertive right to choose to be responsible only for yourself, other people can and will manipulate you into doing what they want by presenting their own problems to you as if they were your problems.

Quiénes son los culpables, Carasso: los que odian o los que no quieren ver las consecuencias del odio.

tenía ya los ojos llenos de ese líquido que sale del alma, se convierte en brillantes y resbala por las mejillas, no sólo de los desgraciados que sufren, sino de los amantes felices que gozan.

La pasión verdadera que se llama amor no puede alojarse en corazones duros y rebeldes a todo buen sentimiento.

Ser hombre es mucho más todavía, es no rebajar a nadie, con una orden, con una propina. Es más, es… no permitir que nadie al lado tuyo se sienta menos, que nadie al lado tuyo se sienta mal.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

Que me da lástima porque me encariñé con los personajes. Y ahora se terminó, y es como si estuvieran muertos.

el amor que late en las piedras viejas de esta casa ha hecho un milagro más: el de permitir que, como si fueran ciegos, no se vieran el cuerpo sino sólo el alma».

And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive too, if he's got a mind to? ... - But if men acted like women there wouldn't be anymore torturers.

y el amor es así, embellece a quien logra amar sin nada esperar a cambio.

And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of behavior can get in a man's way. —When? When it comes to torturing?" —No, when it comes to being finished with the torturers." —But if men acted like women there wouldn't be anymore torturers.

ustedes son hermosos el uno para el otro, porque se quieren y ya no se ven sino el alma, ¿es tan difícil de comprender acaso?

Non ho mai conosciuto una persona intelligente che amasse per davvero o avesse fiducia nel prossimo. Al massimo ha provato compassione.

That is, I feel, the concern of the educator - to teach how to be sensitive to the differences in ourselves as well as outside ourselves, not to supervise the memorization of facts.

Ao amor temos que ir já limpos, sem cobrar nem fazer pagar antigas dívidas, produto de anteriores equívocos.