Quotes About Empathy

I could not help but feel moved by the plight of these poor people. Perhaps it was not correct, politically speaking, for me to feel sympathy for them, but my mother would have been one of them if she were alive. She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war.

Racist love is still racist.

I'd remember to take care of your soul.

I am simply able to see any issue from both sides. Sometimes I flatter myself that this is a talent, and although it is admittedly one of a minor nature, it is perhaps also the sole talent I possess.

No matter whether my eyes were open or shut, I could still see it, the crapulent major's third eye, weeping because of what it could see about me.

We were the unwanted, the unneeded, and the unseen, invisible to all but ourselves. And you are so happy you don't know whether to laugh or cry.

He tried to forget what he'd discovered, how little other lives mattered to him when his own was at stake.

Cut to villagers speaking in their own language? Do you think it might not be decent to let them actually say something instead of simply acknowledging that there is some kind of sound coming from their mouths? Could you not even just have them speak a heavily accented English—you know what I mean, ching-chong English—just to pretend they are speaking in an Asian language that somehow American audiences can strangely understand?

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

The greatest blessing in life is to BE a Blessing to others.

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

I may have entered her body, but now I want to enter her mind.

If you should speak to anyone affected by a mental illness, the chances are that you will hear stories of hidden suffering, shame, and discrimination in nearly every sector of their lives.

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it.

May we not be as foolish as we are almost bound to be. If we cannot eschew hatred, at least let us eschew group hatred. May we see that we could have been born as each other. May we, in short, believe in humane logic and perhaps, in due course, love.

L'ottusità degli uomini intelligenti, pensò Savita con un sorriso, è la metà delle ragioni che li rendono amabili.

All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.

You can't blame her,' said Amit. 'After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.' 'What tragedy?' asked Mrs. Chatterji. 'Well, when she was four,' said Amit, 'her mother slapped her--it was quite traumatic--and then things went on in that vein. When she was twelve she came in second in an exam...It hardens you.

Man without life companion is either god or beast.

A friend in need is a friend indeed, but if he is really your friend then he should never be in need.

A friend who visits you when you are suffering is your best friend.

A good thought is something that makes a person feel great before others whenever he speaks to them no matter whoever quoted it.

A hero is not the person who fights with his enemy but who turns his enemy into his friend.

A mirror can do something better for you which maybe your best friend can't. Cry and it will cry with you, laugh and it will laugh with you, feel alone and it will be with you.