Quotes About Empathy

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me.

Oh, and Miss Himmelsteen, short of my wife and kids dead on the highway, hold all my calls. In fact, if my wife and kids are dead, well, they'll all be just as dead thirty minutes from now, so hold all my calls.

Clarence looks at her closely. He picks up his soda and sucks on the straw until it makes that slurping sound. He puts it aside and stares into her soul.

white folks can never comprehend a situation where they can't be forgiven for past transgressions).

The only justification for looking down on anyone, is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

she never asked. She waited for the shrapnel buried in his soul to work its own way to the surface.

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

Above all, the very world view, "Every town our home town, every[one our kin - ?????? ??? ??????? ??????]" can only emanate from a civilizational wisdom which has seen places, found merit in give and take and is enriched by travels, journeys and migrations.

That, in brief, is the problem—criticism as the first step in a discussion stops the discussion and is therefore, generally the last step as well. It is an entirely different matter if I hear the other person first, understand what she is trying to do, then talk with her about better ways to do it.

Our egos are often so hell-bent on getting our own ideas out that we can hardly wait for others to finish talking. What others are saying becomes a terrible interruption in what we are trying to say. In the process, we not only fail to understand what others are saying; we do not even hear them out. De Bono's description of parallel thinking aptly describes the kind of flow that is possible in a conversation where different ideas are allowed and encouraged:

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

Love builds bridges where there are none.

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

They will come, Alexander this is going to take some time. Did you notice how unhappy Emma is? She's a perfect choice". "Oh, I don't know Antoinette; she is young and might just be confused". "No, I read her thoughts she is genuinely unhappy, miserable is a better description and she's recently been thinking about killing herself".

Real love isn't blind, it sees everything and has an endless capacity for forgiving.

Can one be really happy at some one else's expense?

el amor verdadero no es ciego, lo ve todo y es infinitamente indulgente

Era imposible de explicar, ni siquiera a Anna, que sentirse solo no tenía nada que ver con la soledad, sino con el espíritu, y que por esa misma razón esa sensación se veía agravada a menudo estando en compañía.

Prejudice is nothing but ignorance, jealousy, pettiness"—she

When women are educated, the world is a better place.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.