Empathy For The Misunderstood Quotes & Sayings

I could've enjoyed a cigarette if I smoked back before everyone knew it was bad - say, like, 1923. Everybody smoked back then. There was no medical information against it; they had no idea - it was a paradise. It was a smoker's paradise: 'They're taking my lung out next week. I don't know why. Doctor thinks maybe I'm brushing my teeth too often, but I can't help it because, for some reason, my breath smells like I licked a monkey's ass. — Arj Barker

Charis sipped, smiling back. " ... I saw God everywhere."
Grif narrowed his eyes. "Really?"
She nodded and leaned close. "We were actually pen pals. I'd write Him letters in Latin and leave them in my closet."
"Why the closet?"
She shrugged. "Because He didn't appear after I set my front yard's bushes on fire, so I decided He was shy. — Vicki Pettersson

For nature is not merely present , but is implanted within things, distant from none ... And while the outer face of things changeth so greatly, there flourisheth the origin of being more intimately within all things than they themselves. The fount of all kinds, Mind , God , Being, One, Truth , Destiny , Reason , Order . — Giordano Bruno

I love to share my problems with friends. They think I'm revealing my personal life, but I'm actually revealing theirs. What a person does with what you give reveals the real character of such person, and you can envision and predict a whole set of interactions through their life and based on such reactions. You can even predict a long their marriage will last, or what they will do when you need them. — Robin Sacredfire

Being cold is not debilitating. We learned that from the Eskimos. They could be cold, and they could function. And you could function better when you're cold than when you're hot. I mean, hot, you become overheated, and, you know, you lose energy. If you're cold, you could function being cold. Now, frozen is different. — Bud Grant

Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger. — Ted Solotaroff

I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose it's way. — Patricia St. John

Todays the day gonna grab my trombone and blow Thunder on the Mountain — Bob Dylan

Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key. — Amy Chua

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. — Criss Jami

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Maybe man cannot live on chocolate alone, but a woman can. — Jill Shalvis

It is true, I suppose, that nobody finds it exactly pleasant to be criticized or shouted at, but I see in the face of the human being raging at me a wild animal in its true colors, one more horrible than any lion, crocodile or dragon. People normally seem to be hiding this true nature, but an occasion will arise (as when an ox sedately ensconced in a grassy meadow suddenly lashes out with its tail to kill the horsefly on its flank) when anger makes them reveal in a flash human nature in all its horror. — Osamu Dazai

Until you have stood in another woman's stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in. — Shannon L. Alder

We can no longer allow them to write just stories and poems; we must teach them the forms of nonfiction writing as well, specifically that of writing on demand. — Troy Hicks

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself. — Jean-Paul Sartre

What's the point of rap if you can't be yourself, huh? — Donald Glover