Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Guys constantly talk about pornography in two ways: as revenge and as reassurance. When you live in a world in which beautiful,… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
I like to call amethyst the mother/healer/teacher/lover of the mineral kingdom because it is for lack of a better term an all… — David Copy Share Image
The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and… — Howard Zehr Copy Share Image
I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into… — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see… — Kenneth More Copy Share Image
I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Let her arm go and pray she has no bruise,” a familiar voice said in a low angry tone. I shuddered from… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest.… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“Just rest and soon enough, you'll be home." I assured her as she slowly closed her eyes and the smile on her… — Grace Fiorre Copy Share Image
The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The number one way a man can succeed in fulfilling a woman's primary love needs is through communication. By learning to listen… — John Gray Copy Share Image
At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I think that everything looks a little scarier at night, when the sun goes down. And I know I kind of want… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
