Quotes About Empathy

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

Education does not educate and gentle the heart.

There is no surer way of infecting ourselves with virulent hatred toward a person than by doing him a grave injustice. That others have a just grievance against us is a more potent reason for hating them than that we have a just grievance against them. We do not make people humble and meek when we show them their guilt and cause them to be ashamed of themselves. We are more likely to stir their arrogance and rouse in them a reckless aggressiveness.

we're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal!

hate is cancer of the soul!

Kindness never won a war. The kind filled many graves.

we can take a kinder view of our species, as one not built well enough to handle what it has been tasked to handle, and also a tougher view, demanding of our species that it look at its shortfalls and do what it can to rise above them.

I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you`re proud of, and if you find that you`re not, I hope you find the strength to start all over again.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth -- but without malice. Loving candour is the secret of friendship.

Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.

Both dogs and people are nicer after hitting bottom.

But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other -- if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.

What the fuck do you know about chemo? Only what I see in movies. And I mean movies like Love Story and Beaches.I wasn't talking about the Exorcist.You an ass. A total ass. But I'm an ass who'll sit next to you while you vomit. that kind of ass is few and far between,my little pea soup spewing devil child.

le prime cose che Hélène percepiva nella gente erano la mediocrità, la meschinità, la vigliaccheria, la gelosia, l'insicurezza, la paura; forse perché quei sentimenti erano presenti in lei, li individuava subito negli altri. Antoine invece era portato ad attribuire al prossimo intenzioni nobili, motivazioni di valore, ideali, come se non avesse mai sollevato il coperchio di un'anima per scoprire fino a che punto puzzava e brulicava di vermi.

Prietenia deseneaz? calea dreapt? a iubirii.

Nessuno può evitare di soffrire.

GândeÈ™te-te puÈ›in Oscar. De cine te simÈ›i tu mai apropiat, de un Dumnezeu care nu simte nimic sau de un Dumnezeu care sufer?? - De cel care sufer?, normal. Dar dac-aÈ™ fi fost în locul lui, dac-aÈ™ fi fost Dumnezeu, dac? aÈ™ fi avut puterile lui, m-aÈ™ fi aranjat s? nu suf?r. - Nimeni nu poate s? scape de suferin??. Nici Dumnezeu, nici tu. Nici p?rinÈ›ii t?i, nici eu.

Il ne s'agissait ni d'un coup de foudre amoureux, ni d'un coup de foudre amical, mais d'un coup de foudre ... comment dire ... humain.

Yani bu durum sebebiyle anormal olan ne olursa olsun, biz ikimiz normaliz.

PoÅ'o?yÅ' mi rÄ™kÄ™ na ramieniu, utkwiÅ' we mnie swe jasne tÄ™czówki i, cho? dzisiaj nie potrafiÄ™ stwierdzi?, czy to powiedziaÅ', czy zrozumiaÅ'em go bez sÅ'ów, daÅ' mi swojÄ… ostatniÄ… radÄ™ Saharyjczyka: - Nie zapomnij tego, co niezapomniane.

C'est étrange, l'amitié. Alors qu'en amour, on parle d'amour, entre vrais amis on ne parle pas d'amitié. L'amitié, on la fait sans la nommer ni la commenter.

Kindness needs greater effort than dark thinking.

J'admets la part de l'autre dans la constitution de mon destin.