Quotes About Empathy

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

The best thing a mother can give her child is a happy and fulfilled mom. There are many paths to happiness and fulfillment--follow your heart and choose your own way.

Mothers can forgive anything!

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

I get crazy upset when I feel mothers or babies are not getting the loving care they need.

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.

And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother.

I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.

Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.

You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.

One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie - except her man.

Hold on ... Say your son or daughter has just gotten killed in a car accident and you're plastered out of your mind at 3 a.m. Are you going to be able to handle that?