Quotes About Empathy

In one of them I am sixteen or seventeen years old. I am wearing, under a jacket of the Assistance Publique, a torn sweater. My face is an oval, very pure; my nose is smashed, flattened by a punch in some forgotten fight. The look on my face is blasé, sad and warm, very serious. My hair was thick and unruly. Seeing myself at that age, I expressed my feelings almost aloud: "Poor little fellow, you've suffered.

My love is always sad."' "That's right. As soon as I kiss you, you get sad. I've noticed it." "Does it bother you?" "No, it doesn't matter. I'm happy instead of you. I murmur to myself I love you... I love you... I love you...

The most alive of worlds, human beings with the tenderest flesh, are made of marble.

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

C'est fort de cÅ"ur ; ça ne crie pas quand tu les tues, ça te fixe dans les yeux, ça te traverse par les yeux avec l'aiguille des yeux.

je savais que je portais le pardon.

tout ça vient parce que il est le père des caresses. Il a un mot pour chacun :

Elle se servait beaucoup de sa larme pour amollir son mal.

This woman could call upon the earth and the heavens to do her bidding. But she gave up her power to be human. Write this into your record, Judge—this Ondine was the most human human being that ever lived. She was human by choice.

people with different ideas from one's own were not the enemy; they were simply people with different ideas. Hearing them out carried, he supposed, some small potential for having one's mind changed, but it was far more likely to strengthen the opinion you already had, so why all the fear?

I'll tell you," says Oliver, "when I know you better.

You know," Sybylla said warmly, "it isn't such a terrible thing to be incapable of open-mindedness. All of us are swayed by our experiences, and by prejudices. If the school bully who beat you up had red hair, then maybe there's a tiny part of you that resents people with red hair, even though you may know this to be irrational.

This is my client Trent. I'm going to defend him vigorously, because that's my job. When he looks at you today, he has to see a group of people who are willing to be fair and impartial. Please think about those words—fair and impartial. Because, believe me, if it were you in this chair, or your mother, or your child, you'd be as desperate to have fair and impartial jurors as he is right now.

The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.

tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it's art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It's

What wisdom can find that is greater than kindness?

What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.

the real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a 5-year-old.

While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.

It is very annoying, when people notice your weak moments but never see your strong ones.

It's harder to kill people. The empathy is so much stronger that the mind must invent new reasons. But, if we can somehow link it to our own survival, the mind will make the devious twists and turns necessary to rationalize it. We're very good at that.

When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse or .even a lion may give you companionship. When you don't know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can

The little girl's gentle touch struck an inner chord in his lonely old heart.

Ayla, what am I doing wrong?" he asked, standing in front of her, dripping. "It's not you. I'm the one who's doingit wrong." "You're not doing anything wrong." "Yes I am. I've been trying all day to encourage you, but you don't understand Clan gestures.