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  1. Sten Nadolny _ Netzkarte

    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.
    book-quoteunderstandingwomenempathy

  2. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    By revealing to Tomas her dream about jabbing needles under her fingernails, Tereza unwittingly revealed that she had gone through his desk. If Tereza had been any other woman, Tomas would never have spoken to her again. Aware of that, Tereza said to him, Throw me out! But instead of throwing her out, he seized her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers, because at that moment he himself felt the pain under her fingernails as surely as if the nerves of her fingers led straight to his own brain.Anyone who has failed to benefit from the Devil's gift of compassion {co-feeling} will condemn Tereza coldly for her deed, because privacy is sacred and drawers containing intimate correspondence are not to be opened. But because compassion was Tomas's fate {or curse}, he felt that he himself had knelt before the open desk drawer, unable to tear his eyes from Sabina's letter. He understood Tereza, and not only was he incapable of being angry with her, he loved her all the more.
    book-quoteloveempathy

  3. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    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 echoes.
    book-quoteempathy

  4. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    Since I was a small girl, I have lived inside this cottage, shelted by its roof and walls. I have known of people suffering-I have not been blind to them in the way that privilege allows, the way my own husband and now my daughter are blind. It is a statement of fact and not a judgement to say Charlie and Ella's minds aren't oriented in that direction; in a way, it absolves them, whereas the unlucky have knocked on the door of my consciousness, they have emerged from the forest and knocked many times over the course of my life, and I have only occasionally allowed them entry. I've done more than nothing and much less than I could have. I have laid inside, beneath a quilt on a comfortable couch, in a kind of reverie, and when I heard the unlucky outside my cottage, sometimes I passed them coins or scraps of food, and sometimes I ignored them altogether; if I ignored them, they had no choice but to walk back into the woods, and when they grew weak or got lost or were circled by wolves, I pretended I couldn't hear them calling my name.
    book-quotepoliticsempathyethics

  5. Krista Tippett _ Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into

    God is that force that drives us to really see each other and to really behold each other and care for each other and respond to each other. And for me, that is actually enough. That cultivating it, that thinking about it, worshipping it, working towards it, taking care of it, nurturing it in myself, nurturing it in other people, that really is a life's work right there, and it doesn't have to be any bigger than that. God doesn't have to be out in the next solar system over bashing asteroids together. It's plenty, just the God that I work with." Kate Braestrup
    book-quotelovesoulreligion

  6. Trevor Noah _ Born a Crime: Stories From a

    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 effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, 'I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being
    book-quoteempathylanguage

  7. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry _ The Little Prince

    I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
    book-quoteempathysympathysadness

  8. Azar Nafisi _ Reading Lolita in Tehran: A

    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?
    book-quotelifepainempathy

  9. Chris Murray _ Selling with EASE: The Four

    We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.
    book-quotemoneyinfluenceempathy

  10. Philip K. Dick _ Do Androids Dream of Electric

    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.
    book-quoteempathyidentity-crisis

  11. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. _ Palm Sunday: An

    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!
    book-quoteunderstandingempathy

  12. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    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.
    book-quoteempathyendequal
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