Quotes About Empathy

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts not measured words, but pouring them right out, just as they are.

Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

The saddest part of life will never be about you, but about someone else's death.       The

didn't know one another's names or ages or reasons for being there, and that was fine, because silence isn't the same when it's shared. Its sad and lonely sides are shunted off.

There's something physical that changes with a person's appearance when they suddenly open up to you.

What I didn't know until then was that loving someone and feeling loved in return was the best exercise for the heart, the strength training needed to do more than simply make it through life.

The men who beat me were driven as much by fear as hate.

In our rush to presumably better ourselves we had both missed what had otherwise always been obvious—that it often didn't take much more than careful consideration of each other's needs to secure a degree of happiness.

Silence isn't the same when it's shared.

Don't worry', he said. I almost laughed when he said that. Don't worry. It's only the people whove never had to worry about shit in their lives who say that.

They stared at me, at Isaac, and then at the floor rather than at each other, as if they had long since come to terms with the fact that on any given evening men could burst into their house and do something terrible to them. There's no honest measure for the toll that sort of knowledge takes, whether the scale is the breadth of a single room or an entire city.

Difficile è credere in una cosa quando si è soli, e non se ne può parlare con alcuno. Proprio in quel tempo Drogo si accorse come gli uomini, per quanto possano volersi bene, rimangono sempre lontani; che se uno soffre il dolore è completamente suo, nessun altro può prenderne su di sé una minima parte; che se uno soffre, gli altri per questo non sentono male, anche se l'amore è grande, e questo provoca la solitudine della vita.

?i cu nenum?rate suferinÈ›e e d?ruit? lumea, dar muÈ™c?turile invidiei sunt printre r?nile cele mai aprige, mai profunde, mai greu de cicatrizat È™i cu mult mai demne de mil? decât oricare altele.

ninguém mais pode tomar para si uma mínima parte dela; que, se alguém sofre, os outros não vão sofrer por isso, ainda que o amor seja grande, e é isso o que causa a solidão da vida.

It was at this period that Drogo realised how far apart men are whatever their affection for each other, that if you suffer the pain is yours and yours alone, no one else can take upon himself the least part of it; that if you suffer it does not mean that others feel pain even though their love is great: hence the loneliness of life.

Difficile è credere in una cosa quando si è soli, e non se ne può parlare con alcuno. Proprio in quel tempo Drogo si accorse come gli uomini, per quanto possano volersi bene, rimangano sempre lontani; che se uno soffre, il dolore è completamente suo, nessun altro può prenderne su di sé una minima parte; che se uno soffre, gli altri per questo non sentono male, anche se l'amore è grande, e questo provoca la solitudine della vita.

Evil at bottom is the refusal to recognize the reality of others, to refuse to restrain ourselves, so that another does not have room to live and develop freely.

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.

In sympathetic magic one imitated a thing and so got into touch with it.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

Il était presque dix heures et demie lorsqu'Olivia arriva à son travail, et M. Holgate menaça évidemment de la congédier. – Je suis désolée. Ma maison s'est effondrée hier soir. – Et alors ? Cela n'empêche pas les clients d'avoir envie d'acheter des livres.

Have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?

Nora had the face of all people who love the people – a face that would be evil when she found out that to love without criticism is to be betrayed.

When I hear about someone else's pain, I feel pain too. i feel pain for everything - for people and animals.