I think that we have to create in ourselves, through critical analysis of our practice, some qualities, some virtues as educators. One of them, for example, is the quality of becoming more and more op...
Hurting someone will not impress them. Intelligence requires empathy to work. Water is wet. The sky is pink through these rose-tinted glasses.
Half the point in reading novels and seeing plays and films is to exercise the faculty of sympathy with our own kind, so often obliterated in the multifarious controls and compulsions of actual social...
You don't think any job's a job unless it's your job.
The Awakening Land" p614 But what in God's name did folks today want to make the whole world over like they were for? In her time in the woods, everybody she knew was egged on to be his own special se...
less apathy,more empathy.
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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...
Curiosity. It was Oliver Sacks who first made me reflect on curiosity as a form of compassion. An ingenious and creative neurologist now well-known for his clinical tales, he begins his work as diagno...
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
Empathy is the highest qualification one can obtain in order to genuinely love.
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination
Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.
It's horrible if someone delights in someone's failures. It's horrible if someone feels bad when someone does good.
Everyone carries a burden. Only the weight differs.
Having emotional intelligence allows you to manage your emotions, show empathy, and prevent you from getting distracted. It also helps you solve problems and be a more likable person.
The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff tha...
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
Critics are only concerned with what affects them. And feeling empathy is a gift not many possess.
I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.
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