Quotes About Empathy

Nature befriends those who befriend her.

Nurses are the heart of healthcare.

Caring: The essence and central focus of nursing.

When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours.

Nurses are patient people.

Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.

If love can't cure it, nurses can.

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

She smelled Roy before she saw him. She liked to imagine that it was the perfume of his good heart.

Jokes about menstrual cycles are not funny. Period.

I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we're subjected monthly. Maybe that's why men declare war — because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis.

Put all your faith in poets. You will find few others to share Beauty with you; and it cannot be borne alone.

Have faith in poets, for they have not been ashamed to tell you that men suffer. They have not been afraid to look life in the face: and often the encounter is more comforting than you had expected.

The rich and poor are but different ventricles of the same heart of humanity.

Some knees bend only under the load of a heavy heart; some eyes are opened only after the head is bowed.

Racism & Gender Discrimination. — One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is noble to rise above them.

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being — that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

This world abounds indeed with misery: to lighten its burthen we must divide it with one another.

Pity him who has few foster-friends.

In the place of roses be a rose, and where there are thorns be a thorn.

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.