Quotes About Empathy

Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.

Then, putting his palm on top of my head, like a warm hat, he whispered, "Pay attention. Be a person for whom love is not lost.

Thank you for grieving with me. Your tears made me feel as if my own were worth shedding.

Let the people you love grow in their own ways. If they ask you, yes, offer your wisdom, the benefit of what you've learned during your time on earth. But the best thing we can give them is our love - not our advice, and certainly not our judgement.

Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68)

I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman

I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman

To know another language is to have a second soul.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.?

May your heart open. May joy emerge. May love flow through you. May you heal and help others.

The fourth gift is Compassion. May you be gentle with yourself and others. May you forgive those who hurt you and yourself when you make mistakes.

The eleventh gift is Love. It will grow each time you give it away.

Let not poor Nelly starve.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

Hypocrite lecteur—mon semblable—mon frère[Hypocrite reader—my double—my brother]!

intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.

At least with pets, and for all I know , people too, intelligence and quick-wittiness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.

Is there anything more restorative than the act of one person reading a beloved book to another person, also beloved? Slowly, I returned to my senses.

To his great relief she recommended no course of action. She listened. She didn't believe in giving advice, even when asked.

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

As my mother once said to me, 'They're quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.

Let me explain something to you, Monsieur Bernard. Back in 1940, when this hell began, I realized that my first duty as a Christian was to overcome my self-centeredness, that I had to inconvenience myself when one of my human brethren was in danger—whoever he may be, or whether he was a born Frenchman or not. I've simply decided not to turn my back.