Quotes About Empathy

Du får lära dig att en viss sorts tystnad säger mer än tomma ord.

Vous avez des enfants ? - Non. - Alors attendez d'être mère à votre tour, vous verrez votre enfance sous un autre angle et le regard que vous portez sur votre mère changera du tout au tout. - Je ne vois vraiment pas comment. - Les parents parfaits n'existent pas, les enfants parfaits non plus.

croyais que l'on aimait adulte comme on avait été aimé enfant, je me trompais, le véritable amour consiste à donner ce dont on a manqué, sans retenue ni crainte

I was terrified those nights that I was searching for the wounded, but doing something was so much better than staying huddled up inside my own prison.

Just that you should expect as much as any other woman.

C'est lorsque l'on donne du peu que l'on a que l'on donne vraiment.

Ma un giorno tu mi hai detto che anche il peggiore di noi ha le ali nascoste da qualche parte e che bisogna aiutarlo ad aprirle invece di condannarlo.

Ce n'est ni la femme ni l'homme qui doivent être idéaux mais ce qu'ils veulent partager ensemble. Une grande histoire d'amour, c'est la rencontre de deux donneurs

you have to be a giant mirror. If someone comes at you with respect, you treat him with respect. If someone comes at you with no regard to your life or well-being, you do the same.

When you hear the things that people have gone through and realize you've gone through the same, it provides an amazing amount of relief. It gives us hope. And I think that's what we're supposed to get from each other. The

I think the pastime of chatting or candidly talking to people about anything or nothing is fading away. People don't even want to leave voice messages anymore, let alone talk. We keep a distance from each other because we can. It's odd and sad. Because just by talking to each other, we can put all the aspects and challenges and joys and horrors of life into perspective, even if that is not what we are talking about. It's relieving, comforting, and enjoyable.

People don't talk to each other about real things because they're afraid of how they'll be judged.

I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.

We're all carrying around some shit. When you hear the things people have gone through and realize you've gone through the same, it provides an amazing amount of relief. It give us hope. And I think that's what we're supposed to get from each other. The hope that, maybe, just maybe, we're going to be okay. Maybe.

People don't talk to each other about real things because they're afraid of how they'll be judged. Or

Simple kindness as a means to no other end than itself is not something that springs up and flourishes on its own. Compassion is cultivated. Empathy needs watching over. It's not enough to simply plant the seeds. Their fruits are not native to the soil. Left to itself, the untended heart grows cold.

You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child with a grandmother's tenderness. Ready to shatter and ready to soothe at the touch of a trigger, a good cop is an amazing animal.

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

Besides, it's always other people who die.

D'ailleurs c'est toujours les autres qui meurent.

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

Ce n'est ni l'amitié ni la bonté qui nous manquent, mais nous qui manquons à l'amitié et à la bonté.

Mieux vaut d'être haï par un doux qu'aimé par un cruel.