Quotes About Empathy

I feel like marching into my parents' room and shaking my mom. How could you send her to that place without her blanket?

Natalie's not buggy, she just thinks a different way." The words shoot out of me before I can stop them. I know my dad would not like me talking to the warden and Trixle like this. "Is that so?" Trixle asks. "Yes, sir." I nod to the warden. "It is.

He seems truly sorry.

Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.

Courage comes from your heart, not your fist.

Courage comes from your heart, not your fists.

Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.

Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.

if some cat brings in a tune that makes me want to stab myself in the ear with a pencil, I gotta be all, "Great job, kiddo! Keep at it!

I quoted both Miranda Fleet AND Gandhi.

if I wanted to make them feel pain, I had to hit them in a place where they actually felt it.

decided I was going to be a Person Who Chooses To Be Kind To Others At All Times, No Matter What.

To implement this path to make other people feel good about themselves I plan to ask more questions of people and talk about myself less.

When you cure a blind person, he or she is not a statistic.

We are here to serve, but the beauty is that when we serve others we also serve ourselves, what we give out is what we get back. The best way then actually to get what you want from life is to help others to get what they want. So why not help more and why give out rubbish when that is exactly what we will get back?

For pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.

She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mousKaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.

It seems to me that poverty is an eyeglass through which one may see his true friends.

One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.

If we meet each other in hell, it's not hell.

In sharp contradiction to Kipling, Mark Twain had no wish to succeed the British in any imperial role. He abhorred what his country had done to the people of the Philippines as much as what the British had done to the Boers, and so he finished introducing his English guest with the playfully reproachful words: 'We are kin. And now that we are kin in sin, there is nothing more to be desired.

You don't change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking some one person's place for a while, one suffering person at a time.

Now they feel not only known and still loved, but also loved because they are known.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.