Quotes About Empathy

Even if you were taken out of school for want of money, Hugh. It's no excuse for false values. The world is full of poor people who understand that love and friendship are more important than riches - Maisie Greenbourne

I'm on your side, always, she said. But I remember what it was like to be a sixteen-year-old girl. She's as worried as you are about her relationship with Jake. But she's not admitting it, even to herself, because that would wound her pride. So she resents you for speaking the truth. She has constructed a fragile defense around her self-esteem, and you just tear it down. What should I do? Help her build a better fence.

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The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent –

quienes le trataban de forma hostil lo hacían debido a su propia debilidad.

daremos clases y nos querremos.

quick to comfort and advise, slow to command or punish.

They're just cattle," Bacon said if anyone complained; but cattle did not sing laments.

Perot's father did not know what civil rights were: this was how you treated other human beings.

Black people who talked about prejudice were boring to whites, like sick people who recited their symptoms.

Saber escutar pessoas inteligentes que discordam das suas opiniões é um talento rato, mas que um presidente deveria ter.

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No se puede amar a la humanidad. Solo se puede amar a las personas. GRAHAM GREENE

He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted angrily, instead of seeing the weakness and givin reassurance

Nuestra fe habla de redención y piedad, no de guardarse las cosas dentro y castigar a los demás.

Solo se permitía el lujo de sentirse triste unos pocos minutos cada noche antes de dormirse

But he had no wish to win an argument with his son. He just wanted the boy to know the truth.

abrazaba cualquier causa perdida que apareciera en las noticias, desde el maltrato a los animales hasta el desarme nuclear.

Hacía que le dieran ganas de echarse a llorar por su país.

He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted angrily, instead of seeing the weakness and giving reassurance

Como siempre, su madre había adivinado lo que en realidad sentía.

Fathers were supposed to be invulnerable - but that attitude was childish, he now saw. Irritatingly, he might have to change his outlook. He could no longer be merely indignant and resentful. He was not the only sufferer. Dad had hurt him, but he had hurt Dad as well, and they were both responsible. Feeling responsible was not as comfortable as feeling outraged.

Los hijos de los nobles no pueden permitirse ser compasivos.

Before you try to take a speck out of your brother's eye, make sure you don't have a big piece of wood in your own eye, obstructing your vision, Jesus suggested.