Quotes About Empathy

I asked the doc, and he said that when people hurt us, the best thing to do isn't to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn't our fault.

Sometimes seeing the changes in one another had the opposite effect and actually comforted them. Seeing that they weren't alone in growing older, they stopped caring, or at least caring so much. But often this seemed to be accompanied by a kind of neutering, a gradual disappearance of anything remotely resembling sexuality, until finally the men in question were more like kindly old aunties than men who liked to fuck other men.

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it. God

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evenings? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. But I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved.

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

Joint attention and common ground, both personal and cultural, constitute the necessary intersubjective infrastructure for many other uniquely human activities.

Conversations may thus be seen as a kind of "joint attention to mental content" (O'Madagain and Tomasello, forthcoming).

Genel olarak ?unu söyleyebiliriz: Duyguda?l?k saf i?birli?i iken, hakkaniyet birden fazla kat?l?mc?n?n çe?itli güdülerinden ileri gelen çok say?daki ve çat??an taleplere dengeli çözümlerin arand??? bir tür rekabet i?birli?idir.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

She would never feel conspiratorial with a male in authority, and there were moments when therapist and client needed to feel they were sharing a conspiracy.

Broken relationships of any kind are most always the product of one person dehumanizing another, of a failure to regard others as precious souls made in God's image and in need of God's love.

Men are pigs, darling. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

To Trump, he was just up against Sally Yates, who was, he steamed, "such a cunt.

he had no interest in personnel problems, since they put the emphasis on other people.

Trump saw the world through the filter of other people's weaknesses.

he had an almost autistic level of unresponsiveness;

People are far too quick to judge others, especially when they don't have the full facts. --from the book For Reasons Unknown

there are no devils. Inhumanity is the real evil

Agape love is the decision to keep loving and seeking the best for someone even when we don't feel like it, even when that person sins against us.

war alone is not the answer. We must also fight for the hearts and minds of those who would do us harm.

How we relate to God is generally how we relate to others.

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you . . ." —Leviticus 19:33-34

Killing is a brutal, vicious, dangerous job," Wuu said. "Empathy for the enemy delays your reactions and gets you killed. It is necessary to think of them as nonhuman, as 'krauts,' 'gooks,' or 'aardvarks,' to enable you to shut off the civilized part of your brain and revert to the killer mentality. By thinking of your own culture as nonhuman, you