Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

She squinted up at him. "But I haven't always made good decisions." Pastor Harris smiled. "All that shows is that you're human.

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and areoplanes to Australasia, we would still have such trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones, and apologise for our tantrums?

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of men they are. You'll see how unnecessary it is to strain after their good opinion. Yet you must still think kindly of them. they are your neighbors. The gods help them as they do you, by dreams and oracles, to win their hearts' desires.