The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.
Erica BauermeisterTags: friendship age women empathy
Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.
Shannon L. AlderTags: empathy peace communication understanding listening letting-go forgiving apologizing closure reaching-out see taking ending-it offering-hope
I could really use someone else's smile today.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: kindness compassion empathy smile sympathy helping-others sharing helping richelle richelle-goodrich
If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is going on, and therefore, generally speaking, you don’t. Hence the sure-fire way to simplify social arrangements, to ignore the incredibly complex play of perspectives, passions, insights, desires, and mutual understandings that human life is really made of, is to make a rule and threaten to attack anyone who breaks it. This is why violence has always been the favored recourse of the stupid: it is the one form of stupidity to which it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. It is also of course the basis of the state.
David GraeberTags: intelligence empathy stupidity violence government
But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.
Cheryl StrayedTags: love compassion empathy giving solutions
When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.
Bryant McGillTags: empathy suffering help care giving-help
The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.
Bryant McGillTags: compassion empathy awareness
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
Pearl S. BuckTags: empathy indifference prejudice race bigotry
Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'. Ich weiß nicht, welche Sorte mir verdächtiger ist.
Sten NadolnyTags: gender men women empathy prejudice understanding clichés mysogyny
Humans are unique in having the astonishing capacity to extend our sympathies far beyond the here and now. through time and space, to anywhere and anything we choose. It is our culture that decides how large and inclusive our moral circle is, but it is each of us who makes up our culture. (p.250)
Andrew WestollTags: empathy animal-rights caring apes moral-responsibility
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