Quotes About Empathy

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Anguish is the universal language

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

A young couple — bride eighteen, man twenty-two — came here for their honeymoon. The day after the wedding, he was found to have scarlet fever, and in two days he was dead. How cruel it is when pain and sorrow come to young things, — they are so helpless; what can they do with it? What a rush of desire to go to them and wrap them about in one's long-accustomedness until the little bewildered soul has woven for itself some sort of casing.

Top tip 4: Somtimes you're lying when you say nothing at all

I've lived a thousand lives just by reading a book

I should have been braver myself, shown you it's okay to get hurt along the way.

For one of us at least, we knew, we were certain - this is how we saw the world - there would never again be loneliness in life.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

I'm the one who has no small feelings

when someone reads poems I exist to be the one who's feeling it.

You're too lazy, passive to suffer. I do that for you too.

Another way to say it: we are each the whole thing, and I merge with you when I wish.

I don't want to speak this language that doesn't know me.

I still love you, for I see your soul

I wish you didn't have to go through things I've been through.

because you already know what I mean. You read my mind.

I am able to reach someone by thinking towards them, partly in words. I send forth my thoughts.

I'm sickened by all the suffering I'm aware of.