Quotes About Empathy

Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people would understand one another better and love one another more if they would admit to one another how lonely they were, how sad they were in their tormented, anxious longings and feeble hopes.

When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.

Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues.

can't carry all this weight, so I must put it somewhere and somewhere is with you. You will take good care of it?

The year is 2018 and I've realized that nobody is safe as long as she is alive and every friend that I know has a story like mine.

But we are not free until all of us are free. So love your neighbor. Please treat her kindly. Ask her her story, then shut up and listen. Black Asian poor wealthy Trans Cis Muslim Christian Listen. LISTEN. And then yell at the top of your lungs. Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues, for the people who had to grow up way too young, there is work to be done, there are songs to be sung, Lord knows there's a war to be won.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Laughing faces do not means that there is absence of sorrows but it means the they have ability to deal wit sorrows.........

always think what we're doing is humane,

Let him see his judgement, let his heart become soothed.

Much was made of the "Oriental" need to save face, but Americans were not immune to the phenomenon.

None of you has achieved faith until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.

The cure for hatred is straightforward. One should pray for the person toward whom he feels hatred, making specific supplications that mention this person by name, asking God to give this person good things in this life and the next.

Thinking about the weaknesses or faults of others is forbidden, whether they are present or not. The Prophet said, "There is a tree in Paradise reserved for one whose own faults preoccupied him from considering the faults of others.

Imam Ab? al?asan al-Sh?dhil?, a thirteenth century scholar, once prayed, "O God, make my bad actions the bad actions of those whom You love, and do not make my good actions the good actions of those with whom You are displeased.

When paying charity, for example, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand. It is a privilege to be in a position to offer charity and an honor to fulfill a divine obligation.

Impure people oppress, and the pure-hearted not only forgive their oppressors, but elevate them in status and character.

The felicities one is the one who learns by the tribulation of others and does not learn through his tribulation.

Scholars have said that if you want to know whether or not your heart is hard, then look at your eye. If it is dry and unmoved to tears, this is an indication of a hard heart. This is called jum?d al-?ayn or "an unmoved eye." A person who has sympathy and softness in the heart is said to have a moistened eye.

I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I don't think I was to be invisible anymore because-because it's lonely, and I don't want to be lonely. I don't want to be alone.

Our survival depends on not just what we can get in life but also what we can give

We sit huddled together for a few minutes, just being there with one another, and it feels dangerous to me that nobody is saying anything.

There is nothing stronger in this world than gentleness.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.