Quotes About Empathy

Mirror is my Best Friend because when i Cry it never Laughs.

I tell them to bring him in. He comes in smiling in triumph. And he can't speak English. After his hours of waiting we cannot talk. I feel rather sorry for him and we do our best. Finally, with the aid of about everyone in the hotel he manages to ask: "Do you like France?" "Yes," I answer. He is satisfied.

More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity.

The mirror is my best friend, because when I cry it doesn't laugh.

We think too much and feel too little.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

and if you haven't lived through it, you couldn't possibly understand how it was.

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired,' said Maxie. 'I know how that feels,' said Blue. 'I think some Pharaoh had that carved on his tomb,' Maxie added. 'Yeah? Times don't change much, do they?

It wasn't the sad things that made him emotional, or the hurtful, and it certainly wasn't fear ...it was simple kindness. It was the decency in the hearts of ordinary people.

Genuine communication in the family is one of the hardest things in the world to learn

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

He understood that everybody's somebody to someone. He

I think of myself as a comforter. That's what i want on my gravestone.

Nothing is invalid. Except bullying, invalidation and pineapple pizza.

Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust; the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should -- so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.