Quotes About Empathy

The women I know who are happiest today are the ones who have close female friends. Maybe that's true of men, too, but essentially it's different.

Peter was easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure. But Rebecca forgave him nothing. She told herself that this was not because he

And, above all, becoming a grandparent offers a chance to love in a different way, a love without the thorny crown of self-interest. I wish I could say I loved my children that way, but it wouldn't be true, and it wouldn't be true of anyone I know, either.

The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and quirks are both as individual as a fingerprint and as universal as an open hand.

Sometimes I went out into the cornfield and walked between the rows with my eyes closed, pretending I was blind, feeling the stalks reaching out to brush me like a pat on the back.

People to whom you could/should write letters: your mother and father your sisters and brothers your best friend the teacher who changed your life the nurse who cared for you in the hospital

I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

The cold in her makes cold in me.

I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing; for much as I had seen before, I never knew till now the utter misery of a cab-horse's life.

Our friend stood still for a moment, and throwing his head a little back, said, "Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?" "No," said the other. "Then I'll tell you. It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doer to light. I never see a wicked thing like this without doing what I can

They healed in time, and they forgot the pain, but the nice soft flap, that of course was intended to protect the delicate part of their ears from dust and injury, was gone forever. Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut the end off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

he thought people did not value their animals half enough, nor make friends of them as they ought to do

there is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham—all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out.

we have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason; we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

We have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason.

Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut the end off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Il mondo va male perché la gente pensa solo agli affari propri, e non si preoccupa mai di prendere le parti di chi è ingiustamente oppresso o di smascherare i malfattori. Per fortuna

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a scam.

I have heard men say that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing;

Hissiz insanlar? küçümseme. Ne yaÅŸad?klar?n? bilsen, sen de hissiz olmay? dilerdin.

Of course I did not understand all he said, but I learned more and more to know what he meant

unutmay?n ki gün gelecek hepimiz yapt?klar?m?z?n hesab?n? vereceÄŸiz, insanlara ve hayvanlara yapt?klar?m?z?n.

If the Russian people and the Russian elite remembered - viscerally, emotionally remembered - what Stalin did to the Chechens, they could not have invaded Chechnya in the 1990s, not once and not twice. To do so was the moral equivalent of postwar Germany invading western Poland. Very few Russians saw it that way - which is itself evidence of how little they know about their own history.