“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.”
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Atticus Poetry
2 quotes“Don't worry— you see, to some you are magic.”
Brené Brown
2 quotes“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.”
Meryl Streep
2 quotes“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
John Green
2 quotes“On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we...”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2 quotes“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to dis...”
Albert Schweitzer
1 quote“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
Barack Obama
1 quote“Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.”
Booker T. Washington
1 quote“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
Carl Jung
1 quote“Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.”
Dale Carnegie
1 quote“Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.”
Desmond Tutu
1 quote“The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.”
Edward Gibbon
1 quote“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”