Quotes About Empathy

Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known.

allows "for the possibility that 'they know not what they do.' "8 How many of our parents intended the harm they caused? How many acted in ignorance and are ignorant still? How many are stuck in their

Friends can be said to fall in like with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.

Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else - Or else what? said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. Or else it doesn't, you know.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

All that matters is what we do for each other.

It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.

I wish I hadn't cried so much!

Oh, don't go on like that! cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry! Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. Can you keep from crying by considering things? she asked. That's that way it's done, the Queen said with great decision: nobody can do two things at once, you know.

Oh, don't go on like that!' cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. 'Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!

Considera qué niña más excepcional eres! ¡Considera lo muy lejos que has llegado hoy! ¡Considera la hora que es! ¡Considera cualquier cosa, pero no llores!

She thought of herself, "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!

Why, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal.

cats.' 'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice. 'Would you like cats if you were me?' 'Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone: 'don't be angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the pool, 'and she

we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.

I didn't mean it!" pleaded poor Alice. "But you're so easily offended, you know!

I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right. When you cry, people should hear you. The world should stop.

I want to ask him if it's possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.