“The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves.” GivingSelfComfortEmpathyPrisonOnlineUrgesSignificanceGood FriendPhysicalityGood Friendship Book:This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl Source: This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
“I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.” PeopleKnowsGivingRealSelfHappensInternetComfortMessagesEmpathyPrisonMeaningfulPhrasesOnlineUrgesSignificanceDislikeGood FriendPhysicalityText MessageSkypeGood Friendship Author:John Green
“So often our sisters comfort others when their own needs are greater than those being comforted. That quality is like the generosity of Jesus on the cross. Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity!” NeedsJesusQualityGreaterComfortEmpathyCrossesGenerosityDivinityPortionsAgony Author:Neal A. Maxwell
“Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.” WorldViewsCompassionComfortEmpathyDevelopingPerformingBrutal Author:Willem Dafoe
“There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia.” RealResultsPositionComfortEmpathyVictimParanoia Author:Jill Soloway
“Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.” HandsCoursesOpportunitySocialLevelsBrainPathSecurityComfortTasteBehaviorAmbitionUniqueEmpathyConstitutionCuriosityPatternsAbstractSeatsGenesThirstTemperamentNoveltyClicksAptitudeLeversWiring Author:Steven Pinker
“I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.” NeedsReasonMomentsVoiceAdviceComfortEmpathyHysteriaComfort FoodVoice Of Reason Book:Saving Francesca Source: Saving Francesca
“Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.” ThinkingShouldJoyStuffUnderstandingEmotionWillingComfortDrugElementsComfortableEmpathyComplexesNotionTerrorSurrenderTriumphNosesEcstasyToysReplacedContainingPrehistoricEscapists Author:Terence McKenna