Quotes About Empathy

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

You never depend only on yourself, you never live only for yourself, and you have to realize that our most intimate thought, that we most own, is bound by a thousand bonds to that of the world. And he who speaks, he who writes is essentially someone speaking for all those who are voiceless.

Pitoyable, celui qui ne songe qu'à sa propre vie, à sa propre mort, il n'a rien compris... et qu'il s'en aille alors, c'est le mieux qu'il puisse faire, qu'il s'en aille avec notre pitié...

Why survive if it is not for those who do not?

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

I know the heart doesn't really shatter, but I also can no longer feel it.

When I told my children, the three of us hugged in a circle, burst into tears. As if the tears were already there crying on their own and we, the newly bereaved, exploded into them.

If you saw my poems today, I hope you could see that I heard you even though you couldn't hear me. I have tried to write shorter + shorter + denser + denser + louder + louder poems. They have become so loud that each night I fold them into origamic cigarettes and smoke them so they'll blow away.

There is nothing sexual about my interest in other women's breasts. But it's difficult not be curious when you have next to none of your own.

Each day try and go through the day with an attitude of being a servant to the world. You'll benefit the most - and the way will be joyous.

It doesn't cost anything to be a good person, but yet there are toxic people around us that will try to tax our lives.

Our attitude to people determines their attitude to us.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

We get so worried about being pretty. Let's be pretty kind. Pretty funny. Pretty smart. Pretty strong.

I still believe that everyone is beautiful in some way and by seeing the beauty in others we make ourselves more beautiful.

I'm not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.

People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them?