“Empathy isn't magic. It's mimicry. Observation is the root of human connection.”
Source: The Observation Effect: See What 99% of People Miss and Reshape Your Reality
“I feel like I’m a disappointment to mankind,” he remarked woefully as he placed the shirt through my arms and began to pull it down over my breasts. “Someone this gorgeous should be on display in a museum.”
Source: Into the Hollow
“Real communication occurs, and this evaluative tendency is avoided, when we listen with understanding. What does this mean? It means to see the expressed idea and attitude from the other person’s point of view, to sense how it feels to him, to achieve his frame of reference in regard to the thing he is talking about.
Stated so briefly, this may sound absurdly simple, but it is not.”
“Strizza, non timore o altro sentimento più nobile, strizza ‒ mi caco sotto. (Abbondantemente, a fiotti, e non è un buon segno.) La tragedia suscita compassione, la tremarella soltanto il riso.”
Source: Scuola di nudo
“To be able to fight pain, you need the empathy of others. Once you start believing that there are other people who share the same emotions as you, that's when you finally start to feel like maybe you can move forward.”
Source: The Ex-Boyfriend's Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee
“White people love their dogs. Kill a nigger and comb their hair at the same time. But I've seen grown white men cry about their dogs.”
Source: Song Of Solomon
“What should we think of a stout and strong Man, that should exert his fury and barbarity on a helpless and innocent Babe? Should we not abhor and detest that man, as a mean, cowardly, and savage wretch, unworthy the stature and strength of a man? No less mean, cowardly, and savage is it, to abuse and torment the innocent Beast, who can neither help himself or avenge himself; and yet has as much right to happiness in this world as a child can have; nay, more right, if this world be his only inheritance.”
Source: The Duty of Mercy: A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals
“Yes, do as you would be done by—and not to the dark man and the white woman alone, but to the sorrel horse and the gray squirrel as well; not to creatures of your own anatomy only, but to all creatures. You cannot go high enough nor low enough nor far enough to find those whose bowed and broken beings will not rise up at the coming of the kindly heart, or whose souls will not shrink and darken at the touch of inhumanity.
Live and let live. Do more. Live and help live. Do to beings below you as you would be done by beings above you. Pity the tortoise, the katydid, the wild-bird, and the ox. Poor, undeveloped, untaught creatures! Into their dim and lowly lives strays of sunshine little enough, though the fell hand of man be never against them. They are our fellow-mortals. They came out of the same mysterious womb of the past, are passing through the same dream, and are destined to the same melancholy end, as we ourselves. Let us be kind and merciful to them.”
Source: Universal Kinship
“The farther away a man is, the less clearly he sees.”
Source: A Rare and Dangerous Beast
“To unite, empathize, love and lift across fractures, is the one absolute virtue.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock