Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.
– Leslie Jamison
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- I didn’t enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy. – Leslie Jamison
- Empathy is a kind of care but it’s not the only kind of care, and it’s not always enough. – Leslie Jamison
- Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. – Leslie Jamison
- This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It’s a quick fix of empathy. – Leslie Jamison
- Females are very simple, with them, yes means yes, & no means yes, & no means no, & no means maybe, but maybe means yes, & maybe means no! – Eyden I
- Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (…) But ’tis at the edges that they find their power. – Hannah Kent
- Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods. – Peter A Levine
- Pain without cause is a pain we can’t trust. We assume it’s been chosen or fabricated. – Leslie Jamison
- We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them. – Leslie Jamison
- Freedom from one man is just another one. – Leslie Jamison
- We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too. – Leslie Jamison
- Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight. – Leslie Jamison
- facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been. – Leslie Jamison
- It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling. – Leslie Jamison
- Imagining someone else’s pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it. – Leslie Jamison
- Leslie, don’t you believe that I know who you will marry, and that I’m capable of leading you to that right man someday? – Leslie Ludy
- Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful. – Frans de Waal
- Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance. – Amit Ray
- Souls aren’t discrete units -” or even units at all. They’re more like reflections of consciousness in a fractured mirror. – Colleen Chen
- empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. – Simon BaronCohen
- Success means you have succeeded in overcoming the obstacles and finally realizing the goal. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened. – Enza Vita
- Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified ???????s means you’ve grown up. – Crystal Woods
- She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it. – Diane Setterfield
- She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it. – Diane Setterfield
- There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. – Laurell K Hamilton
- This long ride is the blood my heart bleeds… – Jess Chief Brynjulson
- Your heart can be broken, but your soul never bleeds. – Deborah Brodie
- Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding. – Meghan Lamb
- If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. – J Sheridan Le Fanu
- Tearless grief bleeds inwardly – Christian Nestell Bovee
- The heart that bleeds, knows true heartache.-Nina Jean Slack – Nina Jean Slack
- Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. – Dean Koontz
- When all that’s left mediocrity and each day just bleeds into the next. – Andy Carrington
- No. Not really red,but the color of a rose when it bleeds. – Anne Sexton
- My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn’t die. – Tommy Tran
- A true writer cuts their heart open and bleeds all over the page… – Cynthia Batten
- …the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. – Jos Saramago
- France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound. – Victor Hugo
- Love bleeds you dry until the red organ ceases to beat – Sonya Watson