Quotes About Empathy

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. It's

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself.

Even if you are eighty years old, or a lesbian, or a strident feminist, or a nun, or an eighty-year-old strident feminist lesbian nun who has never been married and never intends to get married, the politest possible answer is still: "Not yet.

I realized that, as a songwriter, the only thing I really do is make jewelry for the inside of other people's minds.

You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish. Now I am wiser. It's a pity we cannot put an old head on young shoulders, or you could be wise, too. But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering—no matter what you may think of them and their supposed good fortune.

I learned that not only does everybody have a story that would stop your heart, but everybody wants to tell you about it.

It reminds me of this wonderful adage from the British columnist Katharine Whitehorn: "You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.

You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.") I would so much rather that you wrote a book in order to entertain yourself than to help me. Or if your subject matter is darker and more serious, I would prefer that you made your art in order to save yourself, or to relieve yourself of some great psychic burden, rather than to save or relieve us.

apreciar o prazer pode ser a âncora de humanidade de uma pessoa.

as a songwriter, the only thing I really do is make jewelry for the inside of other people's minds.

He kept begging God, "Please, please, please open my heart.

just because people can hear each other across the divide does not mean they can necessarily understand each other

the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.

Then I give her a grim shake of my head and say aloud, 'This blows ass.' She nods sympathetically. She doesn't understand, but of course, in her way she understands completely.

And always remember that people's judgements about you are none of your business.

Bless his heart, Giovanni doesn't try to put a reassuring arm around me, nor does he express the slightest discomfort about my explosion of sadness. Instead, he just sits through my tears in silence, until I've calmed down.

I realized as a songwriter that all I really do is make jewelry for the inside of other people's minds.

I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of *reaching* his highest potential. … Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving.

But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

We could not possibly have been more different. But maybe that's where love grows best—in the deep space that exists between polarities.

But I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my dog's time—everything.

No te disculpes por llorar. Sin sentimientos, no somos más que robots

It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering--no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.