Quotes About Empathy

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications

There were days when my colleagues and I were sure there was nothing left that one human being could do to another that could shock us. And then, without fail, something else came along to prove us wrong

never, never frown in her direction, because she takes everything very personally.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Honey, God made us all with special needs. Some are simply more apparent than others.

And your neihjbour is sitting next door weeping as she watches her child facing a crowd of Palestiniankids armed with rocks which could take your boy's eye out or give him brain damage if god forbids he took off his helmet one of those dusty stones hit him in the head

The art of reading is to know and understand the things which go unsaid.

Being a mother isn't easy.

She didn't forgive him, not then. Not really until years later when she realized how men were so influenced by their peers and governments. This was something Ruth, a woman who could stand alone in the world, would never understand.

Those who loved Ruth--so many--touched her hand, her shoulder, held her lightly, but no one could read the world inside other human bones. They could touch the skin and not feel the grief and pain it held only a skin's-width away.

In a lot of ways, this is a book about all the ways that people life you up and take care of you.

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

Let me get this straight," Eli said, as if trying to be calm even though I could tell he was upset. "Instead of returning to your own body, you swapped with my sister?" "Yes." "So while I was waiting for you to wake up, holding your hand and saying...well, things I would never say to my sister...it was her and not you?" "Um...yeah.

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

You have to treat everyone you meet as if they are the most important person in the world - because they are. If not to you, then to someone, and if not today, then perhaps tomorrow.

Perhaps the greatest lesson she'd learned was that the quality of one's relationships had less to do with time spent together than with the manner in which it was spent.

Tu ne tenais pas de discours grandiloquents sur la fraternité, mais tu portais toujours une attention aux obscurs, aux vulnérables, pas uniquement parce que toi-même tu te rangeais parmi ceux-là, mais parce que les puissants pleins de certitude, ceux qui veulent à tout prix attirer la lumière sur eux, te faisaient craindre que ce monde ne devienne vraiment irrespirable.

unless you've walked in another person's skin, you don't know what he's put up with, what he's gone through

Helping children master their emotions and relationships makes them better learners.

When adults ignore their children's feelings, children come to believe their feelings are not important. When we repeatedly threaten or punish children for a display of emotion, children learn that emotions are dangerous things that need to be held inside and hidden—an invitation to later depression or rage.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

When someone needs help, that's the time to help. Not the next day. Not when it's safe.

We need to forgive ourselves and everyone else for NOT being perfect.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.