Quotes About Empathy

Un hombre no debe ponerle nunca la mano encima a una mujer, salvo por amor.

No, no me molesta que me lo preguntes —repuso el anciano—. Siempre que a ti no te moleste que no te conteste.

Hasta el mejor de los perros muerde cuando se cansa de que lo maltraten.

You know what's strange?" I said to him through the door. "I tried to think of something funny I could do while you were gone, but I couldn't." I looked around at the room. "I think that means humor is rooted in social transgression. I can't transgress because I can't figure out what would be socially unacceptable. Everything seems the same to me.

You go rummaging around in other people's lives. You hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things. But you don't." He looked hard at the scribe. "When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

But only a fool claims there is no such thing as love. When you see two young ones taring at each other with dewy eyes, there it is. So thick you can spread it on your brread and eat it. When you see a mother with her child, you see love. When you feel it roil in your belly, you know what it is. Even if you cannot give voice to it in words.

I (Kvothe) started to say something else, but she (Vashet) put her hand over my mouth. "I've said I understand. Stop fighting after you have won.

This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me. Pat Rothfuss

No hace falta que os explique lo irritante que resulta intentar mantener una conversación con una persona que se niega a mirarte a los ojos." - Kvothe

Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold.

muchos recorremos nuestro camino, día tras día, sintiéndonos ligeramente dañados y solos, y que estamos siempre rodeados de otras personas que se sienten exactamente igual que nosotros.

Esa era otra lección que había aprendido, quizá demasiado bien: la gente hacía daño.

sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

Tienes una piedra en el corazón, y hay días en que pesa tanto que no se puede hacer nada. Pero no deberías pasarlo solo. Deberías haberme avisado. Yo lo entiendo.. (Auri)

Eres tan amable. Nunca me precionas...-Volvió a interrumpirse y se dejo caer un poco mas sobre mi pecho. Entonces se animó-. Podrías presionarme, ¿No? Un poco.

Cada mujer es como un instrumento, y espera que la entiendan, la amen y la toquen con delicadeza, para por fin hacer sonar su verdadera música.

Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share.

Las palabras tienen que encontrar la mente de un hombre si pretenden llegar a su corazón.

Me caen bien -dijo Denna-. Wilem es como una piedra bajo el agua. Simmon es como un chiquillo chapoteando en un arroyo.

If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well

It's not their fault that the world is full of hard choices and hunger and loneliness," she said. "What can you expect of people when demons are their neighbors?

And she was sorry. She knew better. Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.

but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

We all know that when the lights are out all women are the same height!