Quotes About Empathy

They had a great deal in common, Bowman a little defiantly said. What they had in common was more vital than similar interests--it was wordless understanding and accord. It was love, the furnace into which everything is dropped.

How can we imagine what our lives would be without the illumination of the lives of others?

A friend is someone you can really talk to—cry with, if necessary. I've made very few. One.

My own life suddenly seems nothing, an old costume, a collection of rags, and I walk, I breathe to the rhythm of his which is stronger than mine.

The Care Package is a relationship the Lead has with someone else, in which he shows his concern, through word or deed, for that character's well being.

Having a Care Package relationship keeps a character from being completely selfish.

A good story transports the reader to a new place via experience. Not through arguments or facts, but through the illusion that life is taking place on the page. Not

It is by love alone that we understand anything

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing life can do to him that he will not be able somehow to bear.

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, love and you love alone.

Since "healthy communities are able to recognize past mistakes," they went on to "pledge to work toward the common good in building a community where people of all races and cultural backgrounds are welcome to live and prosper.

A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others. —JOHANNES RAU

There can be no peace without understanding. ~ Senegalese Proverb

Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you. ~ African Proverb

She has been crying here and going on—she has quite upset me.

I should try to pass along the good that has happened to me. That's my responsibility as being part of this planet.

No one ever gave me an instruction manual on how to be an openly gay man.

All love does ever rightly show humanity our tenderness.

So ardent did he sing, each note might carry a breath of his life. People passing stopped to hear. And seeing them gathered, he stumbled among them with his hat held out. It was easy to credit the truth of his song, that his dim old eyes, they once had shone, that his heart, once cheerful, had been bro-o-ken. Two coins chinkled in his hat. And so it was when nights were still and sleep had yet to bind him, round him shone that other light, fondly to remind him.

Do not commit the error so common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed.

7542There where is Love, Trust Will Be the Leader.

Sometimes we no need words for to know the meaning from somebody's eyes.