Quotes About Empathy

Esta noche quiero escapar y meterme en la historia de alguien más.

Misery is too self-absorbed to want much company.

I can try to forgive myself, whether or not she forgives me, because I was a child, but some things you just live with because you cannot go backward.

Even as all the experts kindly tell the parents of addicts, "You didn't cause it," I have not let myself off the hook. I often feel as if I completely failed my son. In admitting this, I am not looking for sympathy or absolution, but instead stating a truth that will be recognized by most parents who have been through this.

Maybe parents feel for every child.

worse shape than you and helping the poor person. It's about a relationship between equals. You understand their suffering. You're completely in their shoes. It comes from softening our hearts, opening up to our own and others' pain. To me, that's enlightenment.

What is true for you in your private heart is true for all men.

The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it"—

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A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

A vegan is actually talking about himself when he talks about animals. It's nothing to do with animals and is all about his personal psychology and issues. There are no vegan animals, that's for sure!

If you want to be happy, cultivate a passion, be part of something bigger than yourself (have a Cause other than that of yourself), avoid self-absorption and self-obsession, know thyself via knowing others and connecting with others. Above all, connect to more than yourself and your immediate nearest and dearest.

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.

Whenever you feel compelled to put others first at the expense of yourself, you are denying your own reality, your own identity.

The best people in life make the world a bigger place, then help you grow to fit it.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

It's vital that you remind everyone around you at the hospital that you're still a human being, even when you feel like a gravely wounded animal. The hospital care providers were not my family, but I soon realized that I needed them to care about me as if we were connected by blood.

One day, Lisa Capaldini, a young intern in the AIDS ward, was saying good-bye to a patient named Gordon with whom she had grown close. Gordon was about to be discharged, but he was blind and dying, and Capaldini knew that she would never see him again. While she hovered over his bed, the intern began to cry. "And I thought, 'That's okay, he won't know.' Then I realized that my tears were dropping on his face. And I thought, 'Busted.

When we listen to one another, we heal and learn. When we condemn and vilify one another, at best we lose the ability to grow; at worst, people get hurt.

Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs of the biography of souls.

Creating personas should never be your goal— understanding users' needs, goals and motivations should be your goal.

Nunca le niegues el saludo a nadie, me explicaba, no les concedas la ventaja de que sepan lo que piensas de ellos.

Mi padre me enseñó que un padre puede llorar delante de sus hijos, que eso otorga un valor a las lágrimas que los niños no conocen, porque los lloros infantiles son siempre caprichosos, intrascendentes, oportunistas. Pero las lágirmas de un padre son de plomo

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.