Quotes About Empathy

Za ljudi, ko radi berejo, velja, da naj bi bili osamljeni, meni pa so knjige pomenile pot iz osamljenosti. ?e si takšne vrste, da preve? razmišljaš o stvareh, ni ni?esar samotnejšega, kakor ?e si obkrožen z množico ljudi na drugi valovni dolžini.

don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies. We just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays.

Nu incerca tot timpul sa fii cool, indiferent, rece. Tot universul e rece. Faramele caldute sunt cele care conteaza

Leggere] – è importante perché fornisce uno spazio per esistere al di là della realtà che ci è data. È così che gli esseri umani si fondono. Le menti si collegano. Grazie ai sogni. All'empatia. Alla comprensione. Alla possibilità di fuga. Leggere è amore in azione.

I have only been alive for four hundred and thirty-nine years, which is of course nowhere near long enough to understand the minimal facial expressions of the average teenage boy.

Höflichkeit ist oft Angst, Liebenswürdigkeit ist immer Mut. Aber es ist das Mitgefühl, das dich menschlich macht. Hab mehr Mitgefühl, und du wirst menschlicher.

Pain, of any kind, is a very isolating experience.

Well, you don't see yourself as a bad cat owner any more. You looked after him as well as he could have been looked after.

For me, reading was never an antisocial activity. It was deeply social. It was the most profound kind of socializing there was. A deep connection to the imagination of another human being. A way to connect without the many filters society normally demands.

You are not the only one with sorrows in this world. Don't hoard them like they are precious. There is always plenty of them to go around.

Kindness is a strong force.' 'And rare.' 'You might be looking in the wrong places.' 'Maybe.

It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.' 'So why live at all?' 'Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too. Now, what life do you want to choose next?

People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of the neck. I don't even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.

Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you "admit to," it is not something you have to blush about, it is a human experience.

You have the power to do good, and you know it.

In one life she spent all day arguing with people she didn't know on Twitter and ended a fair proportion of her tweets by saying 'Do better' while secretly realising she was telling herself to do that.

She stared at her own window. She thought of herself in her root life, hovering between life and death in her bedroom – equidistant, as it were. And, for the first time, Nora worried about herself as if she was actually someone else. Not just another version of her, but a different actual person. As though finally, through all the experiences of life she now had, she had become someone who pitied her former self. Not in self-pity, because she was a different self now.

And I stood up, again to help when I was supposed to hurt.

But I think it spotlights the best & more frequently the worst of humanity so that increases my anxiety.

No. It's about everything. It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.

No. It's about everything. It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.' 'So why live at all?

When you watch the news and see members of your species in turmoil, do not think there is nothing you can do. But know it is not done by watching the news.

who treated Nora like a mistake in need of correction.

If you have children and love one more than another, work at it. They will know, even if it's by a single atom less. A single atom is all you need to make a very big explosion.