Abraham Verghese Quotes

I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.

I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

President's have feelings too.

When I'm happy and in a good mood, I just search for other things that maybe connect to me on another level. I talk to my friends and see how they're feeling - see what's going on in their lives.

All my artist buddies make fun of me for being such a sensitive human being.

I'm an emotional guy. It's as simple as that.

My mom's coping mechanism was to be strong and resilient. She is very compassionate and nonjudgmental.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.

I am a very emotional person.

Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

I'm a pretty emotional person.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I'm an emotional person, a very emotional person.

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.