Quotes About Empathy

Ancak ac?yla tan???nca gözümüzde deÄŸer kazan?r güzel ÅŸeyler. Belki biraz garip ama ac?yla tan???kl?k, mimariyi takdir edebilme yetisinin ön koÅŸuludur. Binalar?n güzelliÄŸinden etkilenebilmek için her ÅŸeyden önce biraz ac? çekmiÅŸ olmam?z gerekir.

Când doi oameni sunt meniÈ›i s? tr?iasc? împreun?, exist? - pur È™i simplu - în cele din urm? - un sentiment în?l??tor È™i reciproc, în temeiul c?ruia ambele p?rÈ›i v?d lumea exact la fel.

It is the capacity to tolerate difference that is the true marker of the right person. Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

Nici el, nici ea nu trebuie s? fie perfecÈ›i, e nevoie doar s?-È™i dea din când în când câte-un semn care s? arate c? È™tiu c? e greu de tr?it cu ei.

ReacÈ›ia celorlalÈ›i la purtarea noastr? este comparabil? cu o oglind? pentru c? ne întoarce o imagine a noastr? pe care singuri nu suntem în stare s? o vedem. De asta ceilalÈ›i sunt indispensabili, ca s? ne dea ceva ce nu putem înÈ›elege singuri, imaginea propriului caracter. Cine sunt eu f?r? ca ceilalÈ›i s? îmi dea un indiciu?

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others.

Am putea eventual defini maturitatea - È›elul nostru perpetuu evaziv - ca abilitatea de a da fiec?ruia ceea ce merit? atunci când o merit?, de a separa emoÈ›iile care trebuie imediat exprimate fa?? de cei care le iniÈ›iaz?, în loc de a fi îndreptate mai târziu c?tre nevinovaÈ›i.

imaginative possession

there is no better way of coming to be aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself what a master has felt.

We had learnt to feel respect for circuit boards and pity and guilt towards glaciers.

bir iliÅŸkinin baÅŸar?s?n? s?rf çiftin beraber ne kadar mutlu olduÄŸuna bakarak deÄŸil, her bir partnerin bir iliÅŸkide olmama fikrini ne kadar dert ettiÄŸini de göz önünde bulundurarak deÄŸerlendirmek gerekir.

Ebeveynlerin sevgisi ve anlay??? yeterli olsa, insan olduÄŸu yerde sayar ve zamanla soyu tükenirdi. Türün hayatta kalmas?, çocuklar?n nihayetinde bundan b?kmas?na dayan?r. Daha tatmin edici sevgi ve heyecan kaynaklar? bulma umuduyla dünyaya at?lmalar?na baÄŸl?d?r.

Bu ça??n garipliklerinden biri, arkadaÅŸl?k kurman?n en kolay yolunun genelde kar??n?zdakinden soyunmas?n? istemek olmas?.

love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.

He feeds her his worlds.

A work of tragedy would rise to its true moral and edifying possibilities when the audience looked upon the hero's ghastly errors and crimes and was left with no option but to reach the terrifying conclusion: 'How easily I, too, might have done the same.

We usually believe gossip about ourselves to have been inspired by a level of malice far greater (or more critical) than the malice we ourselves felt in relation to the last person we gossiped about, a person whose habits we could mock without this in any way altering our affection for them.

At this last stop before the road enters the endless forest, what we have in common with others can loom larger than what separates us.

It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soulmate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition: a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more

I thought of the similarities of complaints--always selfishness, always blindness--and the old psychological truth that what we complain of in others, others will complain of in us.

What we complain of in others, others will complain of in us.

I felt ready to abandon selfabsorption for the sake of consummate empathy, to catalogue every one of Chloe's memories, to become a historian of her childhood, to learn all of her loves and fears. Everything that could possibly have played itself out within her mind and body had promptly grown fascinating.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.