Quotes About Empathy

You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

The tennis bag is a lot like your heart—you have to know what's in it at all times.

He doesn't know the value of letting the other guy lose.

I stand and feel an overpowering urge to forgive, because I realize that my father can't help himself, that he never could help himself, any more than he could understand himself.

Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else

There is nuance now, subtext, body language, and pheromones.

Si buscas consejos, lo siento. Si buscas un amigo, tal vez sí pueda ayudarte.

it's almost easier being down and alone than when you re up and no one s there to share the view with you

I feel so much I hardly feel anything at all.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.

Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.

What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all. It was a pleasure just to know the other one was there.

She looks at Laura. Their eyes meet.

sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me.

Lo so come ti senti. È come essere dietro un vetro, non puoi toccare niente di quello che vedi. Ho passato tre quarti della mia vita chiuso fuori, finché ho capito che l'unico modo è romperlo. E se hai paura di farti male, prova a immaginarti di essere già vecchio e quasi morto, pieno di rimpianti.

Non mi sembra affatto di essere meglio degli altri: è l'idea di vedere i miei difetti moltiplicarsi per centinaia di volte che accentua la mia insofferenza e la riflette tutto intorno.

When someone loves you, they always think you're beautiful. Those who don't see your beauty can't really see you at all.

I yearned for home as a drunk man for whisky. For only there could I be sure that someone looking on my face for the first time would regard it without reaction. No gapes, no gawps, no cussing, no looking quickly away as if seeing something unsavoury. Just a meeting as unremarkable as passing your mummy in the kitchen. What a thing was this to wish for. That a person regarding me should think nothing. What a forlorn desire to seek indifference.

each civilized person in the world should admit that he has two home countries: the one he was born in, and Syria .

I mean if there was any justice in the world you wouldn't even have to go to school during your period. You'd just stay home for five days and eat chocolate and cry.

We tried to be less self-involved. We tried to look up from our dumb obsessions and notice other people. We tried to be open, for once. We tried not to be just another vaguely racist family. We tried to be enlightened. We tried to be good. We tried to be all of the things . . . we are not.