Quotes About Empathy

My death is the life of another, and I will stand again in the windswept grasses and look through the eyes of the fox and take the air with the eagle and run in the track of the deer.

In fact, after a while it was the machines I was looking at, not my father at all. They had become him. They were telling me his story. Which

I guess the message in the songs is that is shouldn't matter if someone moves differently, or looks differently, or talks differently. Is biotic differently. What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.

What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.

The boys crept to her side at early dark to sit around her, mournful, with their heads bowed down like they wished they knew how to pray the oldest prayers and pray her well. Harold held a cool cloth to her swollen eye. Sonny made fists and said, 'What was the fight about?' 'Me bein' me I guess.' 'How many was it?' 'A few.' 'Tell us the names. For when we grow up.

It's a knowing that you're human, you're flawed, and you're awesome in your own way.

Spread love wherever you go. Let no one come to you without leaving happier.

Love is putting someone else's needs before yours.

Listen with your heart. You will understand.

Far better than any dream girl is one of flesh and blood. One warm and caring and right before your eyes.

How do you spell love? You don't spell it. You feel it.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

When you're down in the hole, when that moment comes, it's really okay to feel bad for a little while – give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost – but, then, here's the key: Learn from every mistake.

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

The road to a friend's house is never too long!

It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds.

"I'm never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found."

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.