Quotes About Empathy

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

I would say that until we are independent, we cannot choose to be empathetic. The pivotal word is choice. The empathy an independent person chooses to offer is more reli- able than that of a person who lives through attachments. It is lack of inde- pendence, an addiction to connections, that makes us mean, bitchy, and less than empathetic when we fear that the connection to our best friend/husband/lover is threatened.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

Las canciones que sonaban en la radio, de repente, me recordaban a Annie y a mí; los poemas que leía parecían haberse escrito especialmente para nosotras. Empezamos a mandarnos los poemas que más nos gustaban. Me habría gastado todos mis ahorros en comprarle plantas si no hubiera sabido lo mucho que le molestaba que yo tuviera dinero a menudo y ella no.

Muchos elementos de aquel invierno fueron… mágicos; vuelve a ser la única palabra, y gran parte de aquella magia era que, al margen de lo mucho o poco que tuviéramos que ofrecer de nosotras, siempre queríamos darle más a la otra.

Yo sentí que descubría partes de mí misma en las personas homosexuales sobre las que leía.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins? I think it was Sunday when that feeling began.

Don't let ignorance win," said Ms. Stevenson. "Let love.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

I read somewhere the other day that love is good as long as it's honest and unselfish and hurts no one.

Don't let ignorance win', said Ms. Stevenson. 'Let love.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins? I think it was Sunday when that feeling began.

Nixon to Clinton: "When seeking advice from people who are more experienced than you, tell them what you plan to do first, and then ask for their reaction. Don't ask for their advice, and then ignore it. That way you save on bruised feelings.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.

Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other peoples too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway...

She held my hand the whole time in our private time,' Graham recalled. 'And she was just so sweet. She is different from the Hillary you see in the media. There is a warm side to her

As we are ready to give ear and credit to those we love, he believed all she said. From this time he became distant and reserved towards me, shunning my presence as much as possible; whereas, before, he was open and communicative to me as to his sister… What I had dreaded, I now perceived had come to pass. This was the loss of his favor and good opinion; to preserve which I had studied to gain his confidence by a ready compliance with his wishes.

We can do without things easier than we can do without people.

But here's what grieving people wish others would understand: grief is incredibly, relentlessly lonely. It really makes a huge difference to be reminded that we are not forgotten, that our loss is on the radar of people around us.

Edith's father had always told her that if you wanted to measure the character of a man, then watch how he dealt with his servants.

It stops hurting so much when you realize how unconstructive hate is.