Quotes About Empathy

What was "grokking"? He had been using the word for a week—and he didn't grok it.

Until a person, man or woman, has enjoyed this treasure bathed in the mutual bliss of minds linked as closely as bodies, that person is still as virginal and alone as if he has never copulated.

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart . . . no matter what the merciless hours have done.

the unkindest thing you can do for a hungry man is to give him food.

Well, 'hate' is the other luxury an instructor can never afford. We must not hate them, we must not like them; we must teach them.

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.

anyone who "won" a family argument had in fact lost it.

they care about skin color—by making point of how they don't care.

I spent time then soothing Mike down and trying to make him happy, having figured out what troubled him—thing that makes puppies cry and causes people to suicide: loneliness.

Jubal had long forsworn pets, because he outlived them, or (worse yet) it was now possible that a pet would outlive him, be orphaned.

No one partner in life can supply all the possible richnesses of living to another. I speak now not only of physical sexual associations, but also of associations mental and spiritual

Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." Ben

She was relaxed with what she was - liked herself as Lazarus thought of it - and liking yourself was the necessary first step toward loving other people.

If you don't love yourself, no one else will. If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people.

curled up and indulged in that worst of vices, self-pity, doing it thoroughly, with plenty of tears. I don't see anything wrong with crying; it lubricates the psyche.

They're not cruel; they're just pig-headed and provincial. The fact that you have feelings never occurs to them.

Jacob, even though I find it necessary to leave you … I love and respect you … and will always listen to you.

People treat me nice, I treat them nice. If they don't, I walk away. I don't worry much.

You can give another person a precious gift if you will allow him to talk without contaminating his speech with your own material.

Very few women understand how great is the hunger in a man to be near femininity...(b)ut if a woman wishes to give a most precious gift to a man, if she would truly feed this masculine hunger (a hunger that he will seldom show but that is always there), she will be very, very feminine when her man is in a mood, so he can get his bearings and be a man again.

must do this. If she behaves strangely, or if something goes dreadfully wrong, or there are many tears, he usually doesn't understand that marriage is a totally different experience for her than for him.

Contribute less to the general darkness of the world and do not add to the collective shadow that fuels war and strife.

On the other hand, he was compassionate because he knew pain, real pain, and real suffering too. Yet even in those bouts when it looked for sure as if he would die, he was never given morphine, not even as his screams of pain rattled the palace windows. That poor child had traveled to the bottom of life and back again, and naturally that had had a profound effect on him.