Quotes About Empathy

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Ich habe mich oft gefragt, ob wir die anderen sehen können, wie sie wirklich sind, ob wir sie je erkennen oder nur das in ihnen sehen dürfen, was sie selbst auch zulassen.

We are sitting here and conquering their hearts.

It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them.

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.

In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.

Next morning I crept up to my room, the bitter flavour of disgust and shame in my mouth. Now that the warmth of her body no longer troubled my senses I felt the glaring reality, the repulsive nature of my betrayal. I knew at once that I would never again be able to look him in the face, never again take his hand--I had robbed myself, not him, of what meant most to me.

For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called "success" with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings.

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

Quien busque la supervivencia asesinando la humanidad de otro ser humano sólo consigue sobrevivir a la muerte de su propia humanidad.

Tenemos opiniones definidas acerca de cómo hacer las cosas y de cómo deberían ser los otros. Estas opiniones carecen de comprensión, porque cuanto más definitivas son las opiniones, tanto más necesario es que no nos distraigamos comprendiendo demasiado a los que queremos cambiar".

Real dialogue isn't about talking to people who believe the same things as you.

The main point about civility is...the ability to interact with strangers without holding their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.

Don't you see, Lynn? We have to help . . . or else we won't have learned a thing.

with towards none and charity for all...

with malice towards none and charity for all...

It is a lonely thing, remembering for someone else.

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

How do you spell 'love'? - Piglet You don't spell it...you feel it. - Pooh

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

I don't feel very much like Pooh today, said Pooh. There there, said Piglet. I'll bring you tea and honey until you do.