#empathy

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and painful life: How much can he really see? ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#life

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#novel

Most of us care about one another. Human beings have considerably more in common with one another than they do differences. One’s religion, political persuasion, family, financial and social status, or vocation does not hamper the common thread of personal decency running through most of humankind. ↗

— Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

#empathy #ethics #family

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#love #uniqueness #love

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#imagination #ireland #love #soul #imagination

One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier work of understanding. ↗

— Tim Kreider

#judgment #understanding #love

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world. ↗

— Mary Anne Radmacher

#empathy #kindness #empathy

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? ↗

— Harper Lee

#empathy #judgement #judgement

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#kindness #understanding #empathy

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#empathy #empathy