Quotes About Empathy

Caring is the essence of nursing.

Kualitas paling penting yang perlu dimiliki oleh seseorang adalah imajinasi. Imajinasi membuat orang mampu menempatkan diri mereka di tempat orang lain. Imajinasi membuat mereka menjadi orang yang baik dan bisa bersimpati serta penuh pengertian.

You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It make them kind and sympathetic and understanding. It ought to be cultivated in children.

You can't know how I dreaded appearing in school in those miserable poor box dresses. I was perfectly sure to be put down in a class next to the girl who first owned my dress, and she would whisper and giggle and point it out to the others. The bitterness of wearing your enemies cast-off clothes eats into your soul. If I wore silk stockings for the rest of my life, I don't believe I could obliterate the scar.

the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Just such a letter as you would write to your parents if they were living. 'These

It's the one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin. (That isn't original. I got it out of one of Shakespeare's plays). However

I sometimes long to pat him on the head and tell him to cheer up; the world's full of sunshine, and some of it's for him.

Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

?nsan kendi karanl?klarda bo?ulurken, ba?kalar?na nas?l ???k da??t?r?

Il était plein d'un sentiment de puissance qui, après tout, était peut-être perceptibles par ces êtres intuitifs que sont les femmes.

In English sometimes they call a mentally disabled person a retard, and there is a kind of accidental poetry in naming a human being with this quality of latency or absence, like a clock left behind in an empty room, a page someone forgot to rip out of a calendar, the walking embodiment of jet lag.

Are you there, Jean-Do?' she asks anxiously over the air. And I have to admit that at times I do not know any more.

We are both locked-in cases, each in his own way: myself in my carcass, my father in his fourth-floor apartment.

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.

I think hard times is harder on a man, 'cause a woman will do something. Women just seem to know where they can save or where they can help, more than a man. It's just a worry for him, and he feels so terrible when he can't take care of his family.

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt of a service.

If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you.

I think we need to have a little talk, woman to skank.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs.

As Rebeca reveals what scraps of story she does have to Luca, he starts to understand that this is the one thing all migrants have in common, this is the solidarity that exists among them, though they all come from different places and different circumstances, some urban, some rural, some middle-class, some poor, some well educated, some illiterate, Salvadoran, Honduran, Guatemalan, Mexican, Indian, each of them carries some story of suffering on top of that train and into el norte beyond.

She doesn't rebuke herself for thinking it; she does herself the small kindness of forgiving her malfunctioning logic.