Quotes About Empathy

It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.

Men only give you what they give you...when they know they can't give you what you want.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

Ho un amico che non ama Dickens. Non so se compatirlo o picchiarlo.

I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

When the world is civilized, no wife will become a mother against her will. Man will then know that to enslave another is to imprison himself.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

Indeed, there are two times for most important statements or accusations: the expressive time, when we feel inwardly impelled to say or do them, and the impressive time, when they would be most helpful to their recipients. It is only in very mature and rightly beloved people that these two times regularly coincide.

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

Ouiser, you sound almost chipper. What happened today - you run over a small child or something?" ~Clairee (Steel Magnolias)

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

What would you do if you were me? she said. If I were you-you, or if I were you-me? If you were me-me. If I were you-you, he said, I'd do exactly what you're doing.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

I could almost hear my books in the living room, boarded up in their Jefferson bookcases, crying out to me, like someone stuck in an elevator, or a coffin: "Let us out of here. We're suffocating. Let us out. Let us OUT!" And I started to laugh. "I'll be down in a minute," I said.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart

Love offers us the most perfect soil for growth." Leo Buscaglia

I ask you to consider that the goal of your life is not just to find love; it is to be love. Love is the real work of your life.

Each of us is called to do something in the name of love, to make sure that humanity comes to understand itself and is able to choose love over fear.

To get to love you have to start with love.