Quotes About Empathy

So why," she muttered to herself, "am I always breaking up bar fights?

Todos tienen luz a su alrededor, excepto tú, Rose. Tú tienes sombras. Tú recoges las de Lissa. • capítulo 23

Es difícil cuando una persona pude ver tu alma. Te fuerza a abrirte. A ser vulnerable. Es mucho más fácil estar con alguien que sólo es un amigo ocasional. • capítulo 23

If you're on the path of right, and someone crosses it with wrong, you don't need to turn. Build a bridge over their path and continue on your way.

Don't get so upset about people worrying about you. It means they care. If enough of us were like that, there'd be a lot less pain in the world.

Se le credenze di qualcuno non fanno del male al prossimo, non credo che quel qualcuno debba essere punito.

What matters is that someone—that you—know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.

After passing four hundred Italian slave laborers swaddled in rags, Eric Sevareid took inventory of his own sentiments: "a kind of dull satisfaction, a weary incapacity for further stimulation, a desire to go home and not have to think about it anymore—and a vague wondering whether I could ever cease thinking about it as long as I lived.

I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I'm humbly aware of how much less a person I'd be – how less a human – if they did not exist.

a man should not be cruel to things weaker than himself

And, thought it is far too late, I must say how sorry I am for letting my feelings for my father keep me for so long from his people, from my grandmother, especially. I am told she loved without condition, loved my mother and loved us boys. I never gave her a reason. It was just the kind of person she was.

I believe a cast-off dog does not easily forget the life it had before.

Sometimes you put yourself in a place in your life when a dog is the best company you can have.

Because everyone is an expert when it's not their dog in the road.

They, especially, taught me that you can't go through life not liking people because they didn't have to work as hard or come as far as you did. And who knows, maybe if I had bothered to get to know them better, maybe they had. Maybe they just didn't wear it like some bullshit badge of honor.

There ain't enough pats in the world.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

They, especially, taught me that you can't go through life not liking people because they didn't have to work as hard or come as far as you did.

In your relationships with others, be wary of criticizing. Feedback helps people improve their performance, and as such, is a positive thing. Criticism rarely improves, and generally destroys, whatever it is aimed at. When people offer suggestions or share their ideas and accomplishments with you, practice noticing and talking about what you like before offering your feedback on how to improve it.

the less difficult you are, the fewer the number of difficult people you'll have to deal with.

Whenever you speak to be understood, your communications will inevitably have an influence on your problem people. If they become defensive, be willing to temporarily drop what you are saying and totally focus on their reaction to it. Do your best to fully understand by backtracking, clarifying, summarizing, and confirming.

And whenever your difficult people behave in a manner that you would like to see repeated, learn to say, "That's one of the things I like about you. You ...," and describe their positive behavior as a way of reinforcing their identification with it.