Quotes About Empathy

Upon the streets a kitten's mew and beggar's shoe are calling and the voiceless ask to borrow yours so sweet and always falling. — Awaken, Love

It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.

Can't undo wrong. Can only do our best to make things right" -Grandma

Sarah's face is bleak. "I'm so sorry, Jerome. So, so sorry. If I could, I would hug you. Bring you back to life." Her body leans forward like she thinks she

Color shouldn't make anybody scared. Is it because slavery happened? Is that why some whites are afraid of black people? I don't know. Wake up, people, I want to tell everyone. Fear, stereotypes about black boys don't make the world better.

I hope the teacher doesn't say, 'Write an essay about your summer vacation.' If she does, I'll leave the paper blank. Else I'll have to lie. Say eviction is the best vacation. Hearing Ma weeping and Pa wheezing, cracking his knuckles while Leda sucks her pacifier, double-time, and Ray holds my hand. I never lie. I won't. It's better to keep quiet.

Last year, even my best friend, Keisha, stopped speaking to me when my family became homeless.

Wish I knew. Meeting you taught me to forgive myself. I don't need to hate. Not anymore.

Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life.

Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.

A boil is no big deal. On someone else's neck.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

If I can help Americans to understand China, and the Chinese to learn about the United States, even a little, I will feel very rewarded. I

I realized that although I have adopted a new country, I cannot forget China. I wonder about Chna's present, and I worry about her future. I have realized that despite all my suffereing, I cannot stop loving the country where I was born and raised.

I no longer worried that she was a landlord's wife. She was my grandmother.

After thinking so much about that time, I wanted to do something for the little girl I had been, and for all the children who lost their childhoods as I did. This book is the result.

To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.

value by never saying "me too" or showing their vulnerable underbelly.

Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.