Quotes About Empathy

The animal looks at us, and we are naked before it. Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Historians tell a story about Abraham Lincoln, that while returning to Washington from Springfield, he forced his entire party to stop to help some small birds he saw in distress. When chided by the others, he responded, quite plainly, "I could not have slept to-night if I had left those poor creatures on the ground and not restored them to their mother.

Întru boal? È™i întru boal?", a continuat el s? citeasc?. "Asta îÈ›i doresc. S? nu cauÈ›i È™i s? nu aÈ™tepÈ›i miracole. Nu exist? miracole. Nu mai exist?. Iar pentru durerea care doare cel mai tare nu exist? vindecare. Exist? doar medicina, aceea de a-i crede suferinÈ›a celuilalt È™i de a fi acolo pentru el." (p. 317)

If it was your child, do you want your child to suffer three years, three months, three weeks, three hours, three minutes? A turkey chick isn't a human baby, but it suffers. I've never met anyone in the industry — manager, vet, worker, anyone — who doubts that they feel pain. So how much suffering is acceptable? That's what's at the bottom of all of this, and what each person has to ask himself. How much suffering will you tolerate for your food? My

Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers that there are things more important to him than what he is in the mood for at any given moment, and orders something else. Who is the sentimentalist?

This is a paradox: The opportunity to see and care for the dead body of a loved person reduces trauma to the bereaved, while seeing and handling the dead bodies of strangers is often traumatic in itself.

Seeing your own smallness is called insight Honoring your own tenderness is called strength

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

ponderando os seus serviços e seguindo a suavidade do seu espírito, queria poupar-lhe a vida e contentar-se em tirar-lhe os olhos.

My master and his friends continued on the shore till I was almost out of sight; and I often heard the sorrel nag (who always loved me) crying out, "Hnuy illa nyha, majah Yahoo;" "Take care of thyself, gentle Yahoo.

Anlamad???n?z bir insan? delidir diye nitelemek o kadar kolayd?r ki!

Remember, Christ willed to be born poor, and He chose disciples who were living, for the most part, in poverty. Christ made Himself a servant of poor people. And He reminds us that whatever we do to help the least of the brethren--those most poor--we are personally ministering to Him.

We would communicate a far more compassionate message to those who are terminally ill and dying—and to be honest, even to those for whom dying is a long way off—if we focused our energies on helping people die right. To die right. That's what it's all about. Unfortunately, euthanasia has become a popular topic because people are led to believe that death by suicide or homicide is more dignified than dying naturally.

Porque - eu vos digo - temos olhos de ver e olhos de não ver, depende do estado do coração de cada um.

El fracaso, si es que queremos llamarlo así, es la expresión que usamos para decir que el vínculo ha dejado de ser nutritivo para alguno de los dos. (No somos para todos todo el tiempo ni todos son para nosotros todo el tiempo.) Cada uno de los encuentros en mi vida ha sido como cada libro que leí: una lección de vida que me condujo a ser éste que soy.

cuando nos amamos, aceptamos y valoramos sin juzgar nuestras carencias, nuestra imperfección y nuestra vulnerabilidad, no perdemos tiempo en pelearnos por cambiar. Es entonces cuando el amor y la compasión crecen en nosotros y, para nuestra sorpresa, el cambio se produce

aceptar que el otro es quien es no signifique que nos guste o que estemos de acuerdo; significa reconocer que así son las cosas y resistir la tentación de tratar de cambiar al otro o imponer nuestro criterio.

El verdadero amor no es otra cosa que el deseo inevitable de ayudar al otro para que sea quien es. - Jorge Bucay

existe la tendencia a creer que es el otro el que «nos da» su amor. Sin embargo, en la práctica, el otro sólo es un espejo del amor que damos. Desde este punto de vista amar es encontrar al ser que es capaz de reflejar el amor que irradiamos.

Porque estar en pareja implica no sólo la capacidad de albergar la dulzura del amor, sino también la capacidad de enfrentar juntos las tormentas

Las personas somos un paquete completo y amar es poder aceptar al otro como un solo paquete, quererlo como es, sin intentar cambiarlo. En fin, todo un desafío... que empieza por uno mismo. Aceptarte empieza por aceptarme.

Esperar con más o menos paciencia a que el otro termine de hablar solo para poder decir lo que ya estábamos pensando, no necesariamente es dialogar, sino muchas veces la mezcla y superposición de dos monólogos...

Motivar no consiste en conseguir que el otro haga lo que yo quiero, sino en lograr que el otro quiera hacer lo que yo quiero".