Quotes About Empathy

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

Human beings are basically good, kind, and compassionate, but it takes hard digging to uncover that buried jewel.

there is a circular relationship between our ability to know and love another and our ability to know and love ourselves.

Some of the true signs of being unstuck are friendliness, lightheartedness, receptivity, and joy. It's a friendliness born of aliveness, awe, and fascination. You become able to look kindly into the eyes of others without fear because there's nothing in the way—no shame, judgments, secrets, or agitation. Authentic warmth and friendliness are hallmarks of people who are free in their hearts and in their lives.

For if I knew how to please you, I would never, if I could help it, offend.

Since, replied Arabella, that uneasiness has neither made you thinner, nor paler, I don't think you ought to be pitied...

It is not true love when one seeks to change another person" "Fallen Angel.

our power to conduct our relations with other people depends upon our power of conducting our relations with ourselves. Every

There was a start of extreme joy, such as she had known twice before, but it could be only for a moment while he looked so wretchedly unwell. It did but give her the right to attend to him. The first thing she said was to beg him to lie down on the sofa; her only care was to make him comfortable with cushions,

I do not seem to have felt anything yet,' said Averil, passing her hands over her face. 'I seem to be made of stone.' 'You have done: and that is better than feeling.

like Ariel released from his tree prison, a beautiful human being leaps out of many a human prison at the touch of sympathy .

Our only means of true intimacy with a child is the power of recovering our own childhood.

John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.

It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.

Woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body

It is not true, always, my dear,' said he, 'that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach; at least it's not the only way.

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows that there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.

Do you know you are a real comfort," she told him suddenly. "I never knew a man before who could—well, leave off being a man for a moment and just be a human creature.

It took some time to make clear to those three sweet-faced women the process which robs the cow of her calf, and the calf of its true food; and the talk led us to further discussion of the meat business. They heard it out, looking very white, and presently begged to be excused.