Quotes About Empathy

Ik rende naar de badkamer en kotste alles er boven de wasbak weer uit. Dat luchtte op. Ik spoelde mijn mond en strompelde terug naar het bed. Even later hoorde ik mijn vader roepen: 'Shit, Max, shít! Kon je het niet even opruimen?' 'Pa,' zei ik, 'ik ben ziek.' 'Het stinkt! Ik laat het wel liggen!' 'Jij laat niks liggen!' riep mijn moeder van beneden.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly becomes any of us To talk about the rest of us.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.

Those raised poorly end up hating their parents. They hate them until they realize... they could not help themselves. Just like us, they fall short. By honoring our parents, we honor the humanity in ourselves, and learn to not only forgive them, but also ourselves for having judged them so harshly.

People cut off love for all kinds of reasons but generally it has to do with them, not with somebody else.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

I wish I could've done more for her, but some sorrows were simply too individual to share.

But what is clear about pain universally is this: To the extent that we are motivated to get on with life, we seem to be able to tolerate more pain; in other words, our threshold seems to increase. Conversely, to the extent that we are unmotivated to get out of our chair, our threshold seems to go down.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

The Degree of Loving is Measured by the Degree of Giving

He drew a circle that shut me out — heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win — and we drew a circle that took him in!

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In!

They drew a line that shut me out, Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout! But love and I had the wit to win We drew a circle and brought them in.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

To eat meat in a world where it is not required for sustenance is to do so out of malice. To consume any animal product purely for your own pleasure is to do so out of greed and arrogance.

Who was I to judge the heart which broke into that moment, spilling kindness and longing? Who was I to dismiss her story because I did not know it?

Quelli con il pelo sullo stomaco che pensano a lungo prima di addormentarsi non riescono mai a essere cattivi.

Christ passed no human being by as worthless and hopeless, but sought to apply the saving remedy to every soul who needed help. Wherever he was found, he had a lesson to present that was the right one for the time and circumstance.

A click of a smile donates the sweetness of love and beautifies the world.