Empathic Civilisation Quotes & Sayings

My best advice for
you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to work
like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you'll
make a wonderful life. — Doris Betts

I think that many people do not know what empathy is. They think empathy is understanding their own selves and then connecting with like-minded individuals, who of course will understand them since they all share the same ideas. Empathy has nothing to do with likemindedness; it has to do with being able to feel the things that others feel, even when you do not share the same ideas, life story, or absolutely nothing at all! When I hear someone say, "I don't understand you", that makes me feel sorry for them. I can even understand a rock, and they can't understand me? My pet rocks have more empathy than they do. — C. JoyBell C.

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict. — Chuck Palahniuk

Hunger is the best sauce in the world. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Grief has a ruthless commonality. — John Stewart Wynne

Whereas I would argue that style is morality: morality detailed, configured, intensified. It's not in the mere narrative arrangement of good and bad that morality makes itself felt. It can be there in every sentence — Martin Amis

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. — Brigitte Bardot

To judge is to believe that a person is capable of doing better. It's to know that people can change their behavior, even quite radically in response to what is expected of them. — Larissa MacFarquhar

You fell asleep in my bed with nothing on. I believe that's a free pass for any man. — Liv Morris

Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, "to be divided" or "distracted." It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking. — Charles R. Swindoll

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity. — Joan Halifax

The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs. — Robert A. Heinlein

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them. — Lloyd Alexander

Earth fell," said the Surgeon, "because the Will required us to atone for the sin our ancestors committed when they treated your ancestors like beasts. The quality of our poetry had nothing to do with it. — Robert Silverberg

136. - There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are
given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves. — Richard Paul Evans