Quotes About Empathy

When will you human monsters stop twisting innocent people into beasts and putting the world at risk?

I can feel you, even though I can't see you.

A girl who chooses to use good manners is telling the world she believes that other people matter as much as she does. She's saying that life isn't about what one person does for herself but about what people can do together for the common good.

L'image de ta Berlinoise en train de flotter d'un lit à l'autre, ne m'attire pas comme elle a l'air de t'attirer. A la longue, on s'en laisse : on est tellement perméable qu'on se sent devenir transparent, et quand on rencontre (par exemple) un couple qui vit ensemble et dans le même village depuis cinquante ans, on en pleurerait...

Autrefois, j'avais la conviction (humaniste, chrétienne, américaine, qu'en sais-je?) que chaque être humain pouvait l'apprendre quelque chose et valait la peine que je l'écoute, que je fasse un effort pour découvrir son "âme".

All pain is translatable, from the toothache of a dental assistant in Idaho to natural catastrophes like the floods in China.

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

It was always the conscientious, hard-working ones, Shipley thought, who were the most vulnerable. The people who cared. Those who didn't care, who just wanted to get through the job or the day or the hour and to hell with everyone who didn't like it – those people were protected from shame by their own indifference.

What if we could learn to see the world from the perspective of other species, both plant and animal, and understand that they, too, deserve the chance to make a life here? ---- The Humane Gardener: Nurturing A Backyard Habitat For Wildlife

Love is not a feeling; it is a commitment to act in the best interests of another.

And just in case you interpret boundary setting as callous and unloving, I want to be clear: naming my limits doesn't give me permission to walk all over anyone else's boundaries or refuse to be generous. In fact, I'm much more attuned to the boundaries of others now that I'm right with my own. And as for generosity, I'm now generous out of the desire to give rather than out of some fear that I won't be loved if I don't.

I see the quintessential task of the clinician as one of coming to know him-or herself sufficiently to be able to register the experience of the other in progressively more profound and also more useful ways. This process begins with our own discomfort at finding ourselves sitting in the chair that has somehow become designated as "the authority": the person ostensibly in charge of something we haven't even begun to comprehend. —MARILYN CHARLES (in press)

Feelings have their own kind of wisdom.

The experience of speaking from the heart and being taken seriously builds the psychic architecture that supports the capacity to bear life.

God's Love does exactly the same thing. It's an unconditional giving of yourself for another with no strings attached.

When I read a novel I am not here. I am transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on the page, busy with a scene being played out in my mind's eye, with my ears engaged, hearing the voices carry from the pen to the present. What a lovely place to be-not here - Just Jane (Chapter Four Page 35)

That I have not seen does not mean I cannot appreciate.

When I read a novel I'm not here. I'm transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on the page, busy with a scene being played out in my mind's eye, with my ears engaged, hearing the voices carry from the pen to the present. What a lovely place to be—not here.

The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make.

As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

When working with your teenager to address his sensory issues, make it a partnership.

Ä°nsanlar?n iyi niyetleri suistimal ediliyor." "Kim taraf?ndan?" "Biz tabii ki!Hasta insanlar?n buraya gelip o aptalca hikayelere inanmalar?na izin veriyoruz ve iÅŸleri onlar için daha kötü hale getiriyoruz." "?nsanlar?n okuduklar? ÅŸeylere inanmalr?n?engelleyen bir yasa henüz yok ,Abby." "Fakat doland?rmay? engelleyen var.

One reason issues like euthanasia are so salient today is that people no longer have positive ways to respond to suffering.

Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.