Quotes About Empathy

Hai sempre avuto questa capacità d'infilarti sotto la pelle degli altri…

Kako žalosten je lov na poražene živali.

Then I'll help Fionn with her refuge for lost frogs, or whatever she thinks she's doing. She seems to be adopting them.

Perry was leaning into my mother as he listened to what she said. They talked so close. He only leaned closer, his hands on the table, his leg touching hers. "It's so risky," my mother said. "Why are you doing this?" "Because I'm human being. Because we're all human beings." My mother closed her eyes and winced. Maybe her hearing aid was ringing and bothering her, but as I watched her turn down the volume, I wanted to tell her right then that she couldn't quiet all those outside voices forever.

What's to be done with all that you know and see? What do you do with so much meanness in this sorrowful world?

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

One of the hardest things to deal with in a relationship is when you can see the beautiful essence of of your partner, but your partner can't see his or her own essence - or yours.

We need to be able to acknowledge and tolerate a person's wounded self -putting it into a perspective- in order to create a loving relationship with them.

If you are attracted to someone who has narcissistic tendencies, but are unable to put their narcissism and lack of empathy into a healthy perspective, then this person is isn't for you - not matter how much you love their essence.

Margaret Sidney

We stand before a burning bush whenever other human beings share with us something of their relationship with God or something of the movements of their hearts. In such moments may we always realize that we stand on holy ground

but also seems to include a heightened awareness in people everywhere

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

Books are door-shaped portals carrying me across oceans and centuries, helping me feel less alone.

Hatred must be a hard thing to learn.

Is there any way that two people from faraway places can ever really understand each other's daydrems?

Anger is like a disease. You can catch it. You can give it.

I feel certain that words can be as human as people, alive with the breath of compassion.