Empathy - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

With my bright shirt and stick with a hook on the top, I set off every morning to... clean the beaches. So many, oh so many human bodies lie there in the light. And so many souls are lost in darkness. I try to walk among them all, without... stumbling... — Ray Bradbury I Sing the Body...

I will not say do not cry, for not all tears are bitter. — J. R. R. Tolkien The Return of...

When someone is telling you their story over and over, they are trying to figure something out. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross On Grief and...

For all our mythologizing, the margins can be painful and some people are there because they have no choice. — Jon Ronson Frank: The True...

I'm tired of people who have not been at war who know all about it. — John Steinbeck The Moon Is Down

The thing to remember when you're writing, is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. I don't care what literary device you might use, or belief systems you tap into--if you can make a story true for the reader, if you can give them a glimpse into another way of seeing the world, or another way that they can cope with their problems, then that story is a success. — Charles de Lint The Blue Girl

I had observed that neurotypicals criticised autistic people for lacking empathy… but seldom made any effort to improve their own empathy towards autistic people. Pg 318

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should like to share...

I learn from my own daughter that you don't have to be awake to cry.

A funeral is like a little game, really. You have to just play along and say the right thing and behave the right way until it's over. Be pleasant but don't smile too much; be sad but don't overdo it...

There are two varieties of men. Some understand 'something of women', the others are those who simply 'understand women'. I don't know which variety is more suspicious to me.

for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred...

Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the...

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little...

Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me? What does that say about my life, my pains, my anguish? — Azar Nafisi Reading Lolita...

An android, he said, doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for.Then, Miss Luft said, you must be an android. — Philip K. Dick Do Androids...

Be warned: If you allow yourself to see dignity in someone, you have doomed yourself to wanting to understand and help whoever it is."If you see dignity in anything, in fact--it doesn't have to be human--you will still want to understand it and help it. Many people are now seeing dignity in the lower animals and the plant world and waterfalls and deserts--and even in the entire planet and its atmosphere. And now they are helpless not to want to understand and help those things."Poor souls! — Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Palm Sunday: An...

Is this what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equaliser, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another. — Mitch Albom Tuesdays with...

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What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

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