Quotes About Empathy

Yo voy a ser tu gran decepción y tú la mía porque vamos a representar allá adentro, acá adentro, a todos los que tienen la soberbia para emprender la tarea de convertir dos vidas en una

Qué voy a hacer para no ser tan raro, Dios mío, cuándo voy a ser capaz de enfrentar a los desconocidos, cuándo me van a pasar estas ganas de ser invisible, Dios, que no me miren

Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.

I shook his hand and thanked him, and as I thanked him I welled up and as that happened I tried to explain. 'It's because I'm from Chicago,' I said. 'Where in Chicago are you from?' he asked. 'Glencoe.' 'That's not Chicago,' he said, and waved me away.

After all, almost everyone I know, even my very oldest friends, remain, in important ways, a mystery to me.

As an American, I'd like to apologize-for everything.

In Montana, a policeman will pull you over because he is lonely.

It might not seem like much, but what most people don't get is that there's a world of difference between not being cruel and being kind.

I did not demand that the crows be like me, that their minds resemble my own: I simply cared for them. Why should I base my level of care and concern for them on how much like me they were, rather than loving them for what they were? That I should love only those that resembled myself, and neglect those who lived in other worlds, going about their other lives, seemed absurd to me. Arrogant. I cared for all.

Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.

I hope that I would leave a legacy of joy. A legacy of real compassion. Because I think there is great joy in real compassion. I don't think that you can know joy apart from caring deeply about people – caring enough about people that you actually do something.

When you feed hungry people, you are showing mercy. The search for justice begins when you ask why the hungry are hungry.

Perhaps you should have been a dragon yourself!" she shouted back. "If you could see the world as I see it!

There is only one child in the world and the child's name is ALL children. —Carl Sandburg

I am sorry for you with all my heart. But you cannot blame us, for you came to kill us if you could.

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? WILLIAM BLAKE, SONGS OF INNOCENCE

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things." The reader who gleefully joins in the condemnation of the unrighteous is "without excuse" (anapologtos) before God (2:1), just as those who refuse to acknowledge God are anapologtos

Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a lifetime.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

The longer you went without speaking, the harder it gets to break the silence.

Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely.

Jensen var det enda svarta alter ego jag hade. Han föddes svart eftersom pappa hade fördomar mot svarta. Han föddes in i mig så att jag kunde utveckla uppskattning för alla möjliga sorters människor. Han gav mig perspektiv så att jag inte skulle bli fördomsfull som pappa. Jensen läste om sin ras och gav sig själv ett slavnamn från sjuttonhundratalet. Med kunskapen Jensen gav mig, har jag förståelse för rashistoria och kamp.