Quotes About Empathy

Aos esfarrapados do mundo e aos que neles se descobrem e, assim descobrindo-se, com eles sofrem, mas, sobretudo, com eles lutam.

Personne n'éduque autrui, personne ne s'éduque seul, les hommes s'éduquent ensemble par l'intermédiaire du monde.

How can I enter into dialogue if I always project ignorance onto others and ignore my own? How can I enter into dialogue if I regard myself as a case apart from other men [sic]?

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

em mim eu vejo o outro e outro e outro enfim dezenas trens passando vagões cheios de gente centenas o outro que há em mim é você você e você assim como eu estou em você eu estou nele em nós e só quando estamos em nós estamos em paz mesmo que estejamos a sós

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work

If you hate something, don't you do it too?

I believe that the normal human heart is born good. That is, it's born sensitive and feeling, eager to be approved and to approve, hungry for simple happiness and the chance to live. It neither wishes to be killed, nor to kill. If through circumstances, it is overcome by evil, it never becomes entirely evil. There remain in it elements of good, however recessive, which continue to hold the possibility of restoration.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?

Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.