Quotes About Empathy

No one is kind to me; no one asks me what's wrong.

I can't help but be both of you. I wanted to be able to take a side and will never again.

and you breathe on me, as if I were an object, observable malice.

If you don't understand me, then it must be experienced.

How much have you suffered? It isn't just, is it? No it's not

I want us to be better people.

though you seem so emotional you have no feeling

Can you hear me, all of you?

Without any deity but us without any need but to know Each other's minds again after our presumed deaths reunited

Com muita frequência, muita frequência mesmo, astrólogos e terapeutas podem cair no próprio jargão e falar dos seus clientes e pacientes de um modo padronizado. As pessoas se tornam 'casos', e o profissional cai naquilo que Martin Bubler chamava de atitude do 'Eu-isso' em vez de na atitude do 'Eu-tu'.

A expressão ideal de Marte e de Vênus surge quando eles se equilibram mutuamente. Nessa circunstância, Marte aprende a lutar a favor de outra pessoa, e não contra ela, e Vênus passa a ser forte, e não fraca, no amor.

It is past time everyone sees Negro girls can be touched by white hands without lust or anger. If Martha loses her show, that is nothing compared to what Negro girls lose every day when people don't understand that.

He reached across the table and put both his cold hands on my face. Those hands that had—what did he say?—"opened doors of perception and windows of imagination and broken shackles of anxiety" were soft.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.

It was probable, I thought, that what I disliked in him was what Nour had disliked in me, and that the whole world was mad.

There is no relationship. Women, like men, women, children, babies hamsters. This is the Google Translate of the quote in Persian, above.

She often noticed it was only when we shared the same qualities that we recognised them in other people.

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying'

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Storytelling itself is an activity, not an object. Stories are the closest we can come to shared experience….Like all stories, they are most fundamentally a chance to ride around inside another head and be reminded that being who we are and where we are, and doing what we're doing, is not the only possibility. —Harriet McBryde Johnson, Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life (2006)

A brain injury is a particularly hard injury to have because it changes who you are in ways that other injuries don't, since it affects how you think, act, and respond. It's hard to talk about that loss and grief with people who have never experienced it.