Quotes About Empathy

Fasting, in its most fundamental aspiration, is about developing a sacrificial, self-offering life that addresses and nurtures the needs of others.

My goodness', thought Milo. 'Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

I cannot take your sense of humor--and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me.

I call myself seven or eight times a day just to see how I am.' 'How are you?' he asked politely. 'Not very well, I'm afraid.

My goodness," thought Milo, "everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

9. The Moon Cannot Be Stolen Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of the mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing in it to steal. Ryokan returned and caught him. You may have come a long way to visit me, he told the prowler, and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift. Ryokan sat naked, watching the moon. Poor fellow, he mused, I wish I could give him this beautiful moon.

Jimmy Valentine looked into her eyes, forgetting at once what he was. He became another man.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

She started to try to cover the sad marks of what she had done. Love and large-hearted giving, when added together, can leave deep marks. It is never easy to cover these marks, dear friends, never easy.

Nada conmueve tanto a las mujeres como la posibilidad de salvar un hombre.

Una persona sufrida es menos sensible al dolor que las que apenas si ha sido tocadas por la adversidad.

Otherness is what constitutes us.

Quizá morir con otro no es morirse. Quizá morimos sólo porque nadie quiere morirse con nosotros, nadie quiere mirarnos a los ojos.

I will greet this day with love in my heart.

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

No longer will I judge a man on one meeting; no longer will I fail to call again tomorrow on he who meets me with hate today.

When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs. Is

Do all things with love

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse." Hafid

Nothing can bring the hurt of loneliness upon a man so swiftly as to pass a strange house in the dark and witness, in the lamplight from within, a family breaking evening bread together.

With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to see me beautiful when they have had a chance to learn, I know they're dead inside, and dangerous.

We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. we are so terribly different.''Yes,' he said, 'But the more different, the more lovely the loving.