A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
同理心
Empathy
The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.
愤怒的对立面不是平静，而是同情。
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
一个人之所以是一个人，是因为他把别人看作人。
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
愤怒和偏执是正确理解的敌人。
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
小说和散文可以为理论上的陌生人创造同理心。
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
触摸另一个人的灵魂就是在圣地上行走。
Empathy is full presence to what's alive in the other person at this moment.
同理心是对此时此刻对方身上的活力的充分展现。
One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
一个人在想要谴责别人之前，应该反省自己很长一段时间。
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
机会通常被伪装成努力工作，所以大多数人没有意识到它们。
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
对于那些富有的人来说，没有什么比想象别人是如何陷入贫困更困难的了。
When we understand the needs that motivate our own and other's behavior, we have no enemies.
当我们理解了激励自己和他人行为的需求时，我们就没有敌人了。
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
难道还有比我们对视片刻更伟大的奇迹发生吗?
What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.
当然，阻碍我们尽最大努力培养同理心和同情心的总是其他人。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.
如果地球确实变得不适合人类居住，那主要是因为我们对地球和地球上的居民失去了礼貌。
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.
我一直认为，如果你仔细观察每个人，你会对他们产生同理心，因为无论他们做了什么，你都能认出他们是一个人。
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
令人惊讶的是，很多人在一生中都没有意识到他们对别人的感觉很大程度上是由他们对自己的感觉决定的。
Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. ln those transparent moments we know other people's joys and sorrows, and we care about their concerns as if they were our own.
痛苦和快乐教会我们，如果我们允许它们，如何跨越同理心，让我们进入另一个人的灵魂和心灵。在那些透明的时刻，我们知道别人的喜怒哀乐，我们关心他们的关心，就像他们是我们自己的一样。
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
好的小说创造同理心。一部小说带你去某个地方，让你透过另一个人的眼睛去看另一个人，去过另一种生活。
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
学习是倾听的结果，而倾听又能让你更好地倾听和关注他人。换句话说，要向孩子学习，我们必须有同理心，同理心随着我们的学习而增长。