Quotes About Empathy

You may not believe this, Louis, but I don't have many friends." He put his hand on Louis's shoulder. "You're like a son to me," he said. "And you're a maggot-infested string bean," muttered Louis. "What?" asked Mr. K. "I said, you're a magnificent human being.

Love is different from most things...when I give my love to someone, I end up with more love than I started with. The more love you give away, the more you have left.

There are some people who are so cold and unfeeling, like reflections in a mirror, that they might as well be imaginary.

Just because I love Mister Jewls, it doesn't mean I can't also love you. Love is different from most things. She picked up a piece of chalk. If I gave my piece of chalk to someone, then I wouldn't have it anymore. But when I give my love to someone, I end up with more love than I started with. The more love you give away, the more you have left.

Friends stick by each other when one is down. That is a true test of friendship. But sometimes, it is harder to stick by a friend who is up.

Love is different from most things. [...] If I gave my piece of chalk to someone, then I wouldn't have it anymore. But when I give my love to someone, I end up with more love than I started with. The more love you give away, the more love you have left.

How odd, I thought, that even though I don't believe it still feels nice to be included.

Cuesta tan poco hacer feliz a un niño, que es lamentable que en el mundo, lleno de alegría y de objetos agradables, haya pequeños con caritas tristes, las manos vacías y los corazones apesadumbrados.

Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.

Love covers a multitude of sins…

When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.

One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.

men never forgive like women.

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.

it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

We each are young, we each have a heart, Oh, why should we thus stand coldly apart