Quotes About Empathy

The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel.

Hospitality has a hidden power that is difficult to explain but even harder to deny.

No se conoce a un hombre hasta que se le ve perder.»

When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.

In business," Siilasmaa said, "we forget that we are human. Many strong leaders think they should not be friends with their colleagues. I disagree. Business is emotional. I like to be friends with my colleagues. You get through a crisis because you care so much.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling, light-footed strangers, these proud fools who took pride in something they had lost, seeming to be proud that they had lost it.

I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.

Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to–to judge others by ourselves.

There was a glow of grim pride in her usually gentle face, approbation and a fierce joy in her smile that equaled the fiery tumult in Scarlett's own bosom. 'Why-why-she's like me! She understands how I feel'!

She felt puzzled and ashamed, as always when people attributed to her emotions and motives they possessed and thought she shared.

Oh, Rhett, why do there have to be wars? It would have been so much better for the Yankees to pay for the darkies—or even for us to give them the darkies free of charge than to have this happen." "It isn't the darkies, Scarlett. They're just the excuse. There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do—yea, passing the love of women.

Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Sometimes she thought that all the people she had ever known were strangers except Rhett. "Can't

Suddenly she was standing at Tara again with the world about her ears, desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender-hearted.

Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville, said Rhett, his mouth twisting. He doesn't care if they all die. The order is out. No exchanges.

Be a little man, Wade, and stop crying or I will come over there and slap you.

She could never love anything or anyone so selflessly as they did. What a lonely feeling it was—and she had never been lonely in either body or spirit before.

It was awful for a man to know what women really thought about and talked about. It made a girl feel positively undressed.

I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.