Quotes About Empathy

I will weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep with me over the children of the people." "I weep for all," said the Bishop. "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G——; "and if the balance must incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering longer.

It takes so little to make a child happy, it is a pity grown people do not oftener remember it and scatter little bits of pleasure before the small people

smile upon him far, far from foemen's power. And Mohammed, thinking to look upon a dying slave, shall

Seems to me poor children

He can give you one thing, Tilly,—the pleasure of doing good. That is one of the sweetest things in life; and the poor can enjoy it as well as the rich.

En el mundo hay muchísimas Beth, tímidas y tranquilas, sentadas en rincones hasta que alguien las necesita, y que viven para los demás tan alegremente, que nadie se da cuenta de los sacrificios que hacen hasta que el grillo del hogar cesa de chirriar y desaparece el dulce rayo de sol, dejado atrás silencio y sombra.

You see, when people once begin to do kindnesses, it is so easy and pleasant, they find it hard to leave off; and sometimes it beautifies them so that they find they love one another very much—as Mr. Chrome and Miss Kent discovered that wondrous day.

If people care more for my clothes than they do for me, I don't wish to see them.

Rose: A real sacrifice is giving up something you want or enjoy very much, isn't it? Alec: Yes. Rose: Doing it one's own self because one loves another person very much and wants her to be happy? Alec: Yes. Rose: And doing it pleasantly, and being glad about it, and not minding the praise if it doesn't come? Alec: Yes dear, that is the true spirit of self-sacrifice...

She felt comforted at once by the sympathy and confidence given her; the knowledge that her mother had a fault like hers, and tried to mend it.

She needed no reward but the joy she had given.

Let us not tire of a good work, hard though it may be and wearisome; think of the many little hearts that in their sorrow look to us for help. What would the green Earth be without its lovely flowers!

Polly tried to conquer the bad feeling; but it worried her, till she remembered something her mother once said to her: When you feel out of sorts, try to make someone else happy, and you will soon be so yourself.

Kindness in looks and words and ways is true politeness, and any one can have it if they only try to treat other people as they like to be treated themselves.

We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly.

suicide kills many more than the individual involved – that's why people only do it if their pain is so terrible it blinds them to the pain they are inflicting on the people they love.

She had a talent for looking at a person with no expression - you filled in whatever you felt guiltiest about.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.

When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive.

Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

You can't get over things you do to other people as easily as you get over things they do to you.

i want to hear what's happened to you, she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. it's just that there is nowhere else to start, she said gently. niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.