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Empathy, Communication, Emotion, Illness, Expression

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"Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Empathy, Apathy, Space, Love

"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Empathy, Compassion, Suffering, Emotion

"Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself."

Mark Twain, American Author

Empathy, Fire, Words

"Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Empathy, Youth, Appreciate, Elderly

"Do not judge. You don't know what storm i've asked her to walk through."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Empathy, Judgement, Challenges, Compassion

"[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

Empathy, Judgment, Understanding, Compassion

"Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, you will be a mile away from him, and you will have his shoes."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Empathy, Understanding, Respect, Life

"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."

Helen Keller, American Author

Empathy, Blind, Needs, Self

"Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Empathy, Compassion, Passion, Wit

"We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

Empathy, Self, Perception, Identity

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"I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love."

Love

"How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"

Philosophy

"Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine."

Love

"Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given."

Philosophy

"Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint."

Behavior

"Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"

Love

"Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.""You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. Theyare my old friends. I have heard you mention them with considerationthese last twenty years at least."

Humor

"He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain."

Humor

"She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart."

Love

"Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?"

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