Quotes About Empathy

Aquí no toman afecto a los extraños como no se lo tomes tú primero a ellos, y a mí nunca me convino el esfuerzo.

I don't know a soul who couldn't see a fool jest by lookin' in the glass. I been one myself, once't or twice't. So hesh up now. Cryin' ain't go'n do no good.

There ain't no feelin' in the world like takin' on somebody wilted and near bout gone, and you do what you can, and then all a-sudden the pore thang starts to put out new growth and git well.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interaction, rather than huge injustices.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

We are not to judge the feelings of others by what we might feel in their place.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

Compassion doesn't take sides—

It wasn't an alternative to experience, or an escape from it. Not if you did it right. Reading was the only way we could transcend our own experience and deeply engage in that of another's.

Andate verso gli altri, sempre in compagnia della vostra passione.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time. It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

One of the greatest gifts you can give is your undivided attention.

The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.

Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?

I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.

All pain is the same.

Whose life did you touch? Who did you love, and who loved you back?

You can only be as happy as your saddest child.

You cannot be my friend and use the N- word around me. I feel strongly about it… I always think of the millions of people who heard that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree.