Quotes About Empathy

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

You talk to it, and talk to it. And the stone listens, absorbing all your words, all your secrets, until one fine day it explodes. Bursts into tiny pieces." She cleans and moistens the man's eyes. "And on that day you are set free from all your pain, all your suffering ...

Ma fille, malheureusement, ou heureusement, tout le monde ne peut pas accéder au bonheur, que ce soit dans la vie ou dans une histoire. Le bonheur des uns engendre du malheur chez les autres. C'est triste, mais c'est ainsi...

Oh, ma syngué sabour, quand c'est dur d'êre femme, ça devient dur d'être homme!

Ah siz erkekler! Elinize silah geçti?inde kad?nlar?n?z? unutursunuz.

If people don't like you, practically nothing you do will be received well.

My experience has been that wives know their husbands better than husbands know themselves. This

My experience has been that wives know their husbands better than husbands know themselves.

Alekk looked over at my parents and smiled, and if I didn't know my dad was blind I could swear

Perhaps it is the knowledge that we carry in our hearts that nobody ultimately wins. Somewhere we all go down. Force used tyrannically is our common enemy. Why align ourselves with it in whatever shape or fashion.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it'.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.