Quotes About Empathy

Ik erken geen werkelijkheid die vooral voordeel biedt aan net die helft van de mensheid waartoe ik niet behoor. Die houding kan ik iedereen aanbevelen. Voor mij is het niet nodig, de werkelijkheid te begrijpen of te bezweren. Het is nodig, er korte metten mee te maken. Al het andere is capitulatie – collaboratie zelfs.

It will be people like us that save the world, she said: those who have walked the side of sorrow and seen the dawn.

You can tell me everything, her eyes say, because I will see beauty in everything you say.

there is no game in her smile. There is warmth and kindness and something that looks like steel. You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say.

believe we can carry both the pain of the victim and the truth of the accused without doing disservice to either.

guess?" Naomi sank into a chair. "Jerome," she

She thinks about how sad it is that we remember the killers and not their victims.

If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.

You're too sensitive' victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults who have been in the victim role cringe when anyone tells them they are sensitive. In fact, sensitivity is a lovely trait and one to be cherished in any human being.

helped him with his leg, and she hadn't offered to do a single

One of the best ways to get an idea of how a woman feels about being a woman is to take a look at how she treats other women.

We always need to listen for the untold story.

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I hated cats. I was a dog lover," Des says with a shrug. "What's the point of a cat? They're not affectionate. But that's because it's not my cat. I mean, your wife wouldn't jump on my lap. That's because she's your wife, not mine. Until you have your own cat, you really don't understand.

You can't change the way people are. You have to accept them just like you want them to accept you.

People who think they need high-pressure methods or tools—pinch collars or electric appliances—to train a dog have no clue how to train a dog well. Training, both as a hobby and as a profession, should be pleasant for the dog and the handler. It should be a successful learning process that yields progress for both parties. If training becomes a torment for the handler or the dog, then both parties are on the wrong track.

When I consider myself superior to anyone, as I frequently do, I need a better reason than his skin.

Can Mr. Wolfe help it if an attractive young fellow insists on coming to cry on his shoulder?

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

With everybody. Lots of them don't know it. Most of them up here wouldn't say that word, nigger, but they've got that word in them. Everybody. It's in them buried somewhere, but it's not dead. Some of them don't know they've got it and they wouldn't believe it, but it's there. That's what I knew I'd have to face when I sat there on the bed last night and tried to decide what to do.

No doctor should assume responsibility for the health of one he loves or one he hates.

I made a note to quit trying to understand women and start trying to understand men.

Patting a shoulder can be anything from an apology to a promise, and only the patter can say which.