“Jude had witnessed all of this with the dejected respect one had for people with destructive talents, like winning hamburger-eating contests.” Respect Book:Ten Thousand Saints Source: Ten Thousand Saints
“You don't have to have shared a placenta with someone to sense their pain. Some would say that empathy is what makes us human. But I think empathy was here, an intuition. The thrumming awareness that we are all connected to the smallest speck, the most distant stars, by the great umbilicus of the solar system, the orbits tossing and tearing us with the force of the tides. When we pay attention to things like parasites and the moon, we are paying attention to the fact that we are citizens of the universe. Most of being human is an effort to forget.” HumanityEmpathyHuman ExperienceEmpathy For OthersEmpathy Quotes Book:Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage Source: Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage