Quotes About Empathy

codependent behaviors. Generally these are behaviors that are care taking of others to the point where you and your needs are lost.

She had stood by and said nothing, but Wanda had been nice to her anyway.

People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. If a man feels kindly and obliging, his neighbors will feel that way, too, before long.But if he scolds and scowls and criticizes—his neighbors will return scowl for scowl, and add interest! … When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good—you will get that…

é melhor, ou até mesmo tão bom, reunir um monte de gente para fazer o que todo mundo gostaria de fazer por si mesmo. Tenho certeza de que prefiro dar a Jamie um... Um bom livro agora, do que ter uma instituição que o faça, e sei que ele gostaria que eu também fizesse isso. [Pollyana à Sra. Carew]

Antes, quando eu estava contente com as coisas, eu era feliz. Mas agora, com o Jamie... Eu estou contente por ter tapetes, quadros, coisas boas para comer, que eu posso andar e correr, ir para a escola e tudo mais. Mas quanto mais eu estou feliz por mim mesma, mais triste eu sou por ele.

One admirable thing about my grandparents was their ability to forgive infinitely.

You may remember that the narcissist essentially experiences and understands others as if they were an extension of his own self. He, therefore, feels entitled to what you have

se dijo con tristeza; el muerto era un yo descalzo

Feeling angry is natural; you have a right to feel angry. Expressing this anger is the most important lesson to be learned. How do you get rid of all the poisonous, furious feelings you have without hurting yourself or others?

What proof have we that inorganic objects can feel no pain? Who knows if a book may not yearn for other books, its companions of many years, in some way strange to us and therefore never yet perceived?

Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone.

I thought, If only the whole nation of Israel—and the whole world—could understand that Jews and Palestinians can get along when they begin to treat each other with dignity.

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.