Quotes About Empathy

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

The great man is he who does not loose his child's heart.

Such is life. Sometimes we do not even want to know how much pain we cause others, for fear of spoiling our own petty pleasures. And when the time comes to face the consequences, it is too late to be sorry.

Potser ens dirà que se li acaba de morir el marit escanyat o que té la lepra. Ja estic fins al capdamunt de les tristeses dels altres... Miri, miri, com s'enrabia... - Qui? - El mar. - Deu estar tip de sentir-nos.

Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.

Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him...even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying

We sat in an awkward silence for some time. I wondered why, after all he had been through with his mother, Eugene welcomed another depressive into his life. Wasn't he afraid of the consequences? How did he escape the contagious effects of mental illness?

Orion loved argument just as much as I did, and we would shout at each other; quarrel violently, and continue to like each other. During

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself... If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Power is anathema to intimacy, as it is to love, because when you have power, you have fear. So if you are trying to get closer to someone than you are right now, try recognizing their power rather than showing them yours.

And they say that there is no intimacy unless there is mutual acceptance and mutual trust, no matter whatever else there is, and I would side with them.

Humanism without the root of love will be a cruel world see worldly hypocrisy.

Never judge a person in the first degree of his/her bad actions or says, being a smart leader, you must give him/her the opportunity to come back to his conscience, in order to shed credible light on the beauty of the facts.

The weirdest stuff in the world is certainly to don't love and don't know how to love, that's why others can not be a reason to don't love

It's not true but I long to be connected like that. I want someone to be able to tell I am out of sorts by the details of my distraction, like leaving the drawers of my dresser cracked open. I want someone to know me as well as

You are driving me crazy," I wail. "Why don't you care?" The last word—CARE—loses elasticity and flattens into another long wail. I am knees on the floor, shoulders on the floor, forehead on the floor. It is the fetal position. I get caught in a loop of feelings. I get louder and louder. I am groping about for the concept of NEGLECT. She is neglecting me. But I can't find the words. I can't catch my breath.

The normal guardrails of healthy emotional boundaries were never constructed inside me. I think it's normal that I feel what Emily feels. Better than normal: I believe tuning into other people's emotions is my secret superpower. I can bend steel with my bare hands. I can find a way in. I am CAPTAIN EMPATHY—able to intuit feelings like Superman leaps tall buildings.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Svaka nepravda je jednaka, a ?ovjeku se ?ini da je najve?a koja je njemu u?injena. A ako mu se ?ini, onda i jeste tako, jer ne može se misliti tu?om glavom.

George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, for her father? For she, too, had been harmed by a man who had meant to show his utmost love for her. It made George wonder why love was suppose to be such a wonderful thing. As far as he could tell, love was just another excuse for causing pain.

George put his hand on top of Beatrice's and felt the warmth of both the woman and her hound pulsing through his fingers. "Just because your father does not see your victory does not mean that it is none," he said softly.