Quotes About Empathy

Sometimes you took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.

Each time she brushed her fingers over the convex curve of her stomach, she noticed that the minister's wife, the upper part of her face a whirring glass eye, would purse her lips with disgust. Camille began to rub her stomach more and more often, smiling as the minister's wife expressed her sour displeasure with the proceedings like a Pavlovian response.

Madison frowned. Her freckles were so beautiful. "Here's what I need to tell you, okay, Lillian? Here's where I need you to promise to keep a secret." "Okay," I said, growing a little irritated. I'd already said I'd keep the fucking secret. I needed the secret. I needed to eat it, for it to live inside me.

Reading other people's code is particularly hard. Not necessarily because other people's code is bad, but because they probably think and solve problems in a different way to you.

sometimes we focus too much on the dead... that we forget about the living...! love your peers, love your friends, love your family, and most importantly... love yourself !

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

It was again to the Prophet Musa that Allah conveyed the essence of true religion. The Almighty said. 'I was sick, and you did not come to see me. I was hungry, and you did not give me food.' Musa asked 'My God, can you also be sick and hungry?' God replied 'My servant so-and-so was sick, and my servant so-and-so was hungry. If you had visited one and fed the other, you would have found me with them.

What do the Gandhi-caps in Delhi know about the Punjab? What is happening on the other side in Pakistan does not matter to them. They have not lost their homes and belongings; they haven't had their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters raped and murdered in the streets.

The world forgives a drunkard.

She had many shortcomings, but perhaps that alone was what made her human. She may not have been a likeable person, but she was, in her own way, a woman to be loved and admired.

There is no crime in anyone's blood any more than there is goodness in the blood of others

came to the conclusion that all you have to do is to fall in love with one person to love his or her community.

I came to the conclusion that all you have to do is to fall in love with one person to love his or her community.

I believe that the essence of every person's religion should be the endeavour not to hurt another person or living thing and to preserve his environment.

Since they abused and beat him without anger or hate, they were not human beings with names. They were only denominations one tried to get the better of. If one failed, it was just bad luck.

Know him only as a man of God who feels the suffering of others. And

Villains are always the hero in their own story. Villains always have a reason for what villainy they get up to.

True wisdom listens more, talks less, and can get along with all types of people.

Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

Reon Atescre of Sona Nyl had been slim and laughing-eyed, a lighthearted, fearless man who was not attracted to women, seeing her for what she was and not what he wanted her to be, and therefore an easy companion to her.

Sam has rolled to his side, waiting patiently for Linna to remember to scratch him. Live forever, she thinks, and wills his twisted spine and legs straight and well.