F. Sionil Jose Quotes

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

I am sorry that as leader of the community, San Antonio and my name go together. But I guess human beings just aren't made of plastic and wiring and metal. They are made of flesh and blood and feelings.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.

[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

Girls love emotion.

The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.