Quotes About Empathy

You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.

As I cooked in the cauldron of motherhood, the incredible love I felt for my children opened my heart and brought me a much greater understanding of universal love. It made me understand the suffering of the world much more deeply.

Perhaps everything terrible in us is, in its deepest being, something helpless needing our help. — Rainer Maria Rilke

With a loving mind, cherish more than a child The hostile gods and demons of apparent existence, And tenderly surround yourself with them. — Machig Labdrön (1055–1145)

the dragon is not slain or even fought against, but drawn out and fearlessly nurtured

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

Would you be a good parent if you despised your children? Would you be a good officer if you didn't care about the lives of your soldiers?

I order you not to die," Tsunami said, grabbing his shoulder. "Clay, stop, STOP IT. Stop dying RIGHT NOW." Her normally bossy voice was full of panic.

Sunny, by all the moons, quit feeling sorry for dragons who want to abduct you and sell you off.

WHICH LEFT WAS THAT, USELESS?" Kestrel bellowed in his ear. "Are all MudWings this stupid? OR ARE YOU JUST DEAF?" Well, if you keep that up, I will be soon, Clay thought.

But if she had Clay and Turtle as friends, and then Turtle got himself killed by Queen Scarlet or accidentally set on fire, well, then she'd survive OK, because she'd still have Clay. It occurred to her that this was a rather morbid train of thought to be having about a new friend.

That might apply if these dragons were my friends," Winter objected, "but they're actually strangers who happened to get thrown into a group with me. They're not even IceWings. Why should they care what happens to Hailstorm?" "They care what happens to you," Glory said. "For some reason," added Deathbringer. "Entertainment value," offered Qibli.

But he found himself picturing Qibli standing here, under this tree with Moon,

I volunteer," Clay said. "I'm a world champion at sitting on my friends.

Winter, I believe that you're one of the best, bravest, truest dragons in Pyrrhia. I'll never be your enemy, no matter what you say. But go ahead and leave, if that's what you want." It

Maybe she needed more friends, so that some of them could be expendable.

For most of her life, Cricket's best friends were books. Books accepted you the way you were and shared all their secrets with you. Books never told you to stop asking questions or accused you of being nosy and annoying. Books never said, "Cricket, you don't need to know that, mind your own business.

Jambu shrugged apologetically. "I'm not sure what you're talking about," he said. Starflight had to sit down and fold his wings over his head for a minute. Glory

Or because he couldn't stand the idea of Moon and Qibli searching Pyrrhia, alone, together?

But friends didn't wipe other friends' memories.

I figured maybe I'd start by making friends with some other tribes first and gradually work my way back around to the NightWings, but you're hardly a NightWing at all, so that's OK, then." Moon winced. "Hardly a NightWing at all" was essentially what she'd been hearing in the NightWings' thoughts about her for months. It was a little brutal to hear someone just say it out loud.

Is she safe to be around?" Winter asked harshly. "What do you think?" He tilted his head at Moon. "I AM," Peril said. She thought MUSHROOMS AND MONGOOSES at the NightWing as loud as she could, and Moon started giggling.

And then, more softly, but chiming from somewhere inside both of them: I wonder what she thinks of me.

Some are kinder than others, or braver than others, and some of them do really cruel things. But everyone has both good thoughts and bad thoughts and reasons for what they do, reasons that they believe are important' (Moonwatcher)