Quotes About Empathy

This was me, the real me, and Spider was the only person ever to have found me, to see me for who I was. And I saw him too.

I can't stand men crying. It's wrong, isn't it? Their faces aren't made for it, they kind of crumple; it's painful to watch.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

Surround yourself with people that reflect who you want to be and how you want to feel, energies are contagious.

I have learned that the things that divide us are far less important than those that connect us.

The stories we can tell each other have no beginning and ending. They

Stephen, why are you shivering?' 'I don't know, my darling.' 'Mary, why are you crying?' 'I don't know, Stephen.' p424

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world.

The doctors cannot make the ignorant think, cannot hope to bring home the sufferings of millions; only one of ourselves can someday do that...It will need great courage but it will be done, because all things must work toward ultimate good; there is no real wastage and no destruction.

If every one of us will work, strenuously and continuously, until each has purged his heart of every trace of resentment against every person, who has, he thinks, injured him, we shall then find, perhaps to our surprise, that Peace is reigning over the whole world.2

I know you by your willingness.

We are each of us angels with one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other." —Luciano de Crescenzo

Well, call me as soon as you can and tell me what's going on. Do you need me to come down there?" Sure, like she needed to stick a couple dozen earring hooks in her eyeballs.

he didn't have to carry his pain alone, that the entire town wanted to help. This was a beautiful, comfortable, warm place for him to heal—for Wes to see that life could once more be filled with grace, with beauty. With love.

Everyone had weaknesses, wobbly parts that weren't as strong as they would like. Maybe a good relationship meant finding someone willing to step up and help give support when needed. And, maybe more importantly, being willing to ask.

We also need to think all year long about people around us who might need something happy in their world.

Charlie gave Jacques a tentative pat or two as if he hadn't been around animals very often. Too bad, she thought. In her experience, kids were generally a little more responsible and a little less self-absorbed if they had another creature depending on them.

The mantra of her parents seemed to echo in her head, almost as if they were both talking to her like the angels Olivia had imagined. If they were here, they would have told her the only way to survive heartache and pain this intense was to throw herself into doing something nice for someone else.

Nobody wants to have hard things happen to them. But I wouldn't have become the person I am without going through that time. It made me stronger, more kind, more compassionate.

no matter how difficult our own journey, sometimes the only thing that can ease our path is to stop for a while and gather strength by lifting someone else's burden.

We are each of us angels with one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.

anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.