Quotes About Empathy

Mi poema se llama "Todos sufren". No me importa que me miren.

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

Le parole sono doni, sono semi da mandare, perché sono semi buoni, a chi noi vogliamo amare.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

I think the only test in life should be, are you a nice person or a mean one?

Robyn: [narrating] Animal lovers, especially female ones, are often accused of being neurotic and unable to relate to other human beings. More often than not, those pointing the finger have never had a pet. It seems to me the universe gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these gifts was dogs.

I am exalted at the thought that I see through his eyes as well as mine.

We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us.

Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.

Chade, I know the Fool is strange. But I like it when he comes to talk to me. He speaks in riddles, and he insults me, and makes fun of me, and gives himself leave to tell me things he thinks I should do, like wash my hair, or not wear yellow. But (...) I like him. He mocks me, but from him, it seems a kindness. He makes me feel, well, important. That he could choose me to talk to.

Sometimes thanking someone is more important to the person giving the thanks than the one who receives it.

sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals.

Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it. Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT.

If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.

My mother had told me to never be afraid to apologize when I was wrong. She had said it would have saved her and my father a great deal of trouble if they had only followed that rule. Then she had sighed, and added that I must never think that an apology could completely erase what I had done or said. Still, it was worth trying.

It is the nature of humans that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.

Once one knows what heartless people can do, it cannot be entirely forgotten. It always remains among the possible things that can befall you.

Did you feel that?' I asked him. He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.

Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example, but also by experience of it.