Quotes About Empathy

A gente não faz amigos, reconhece-os

A vida só se dá para quem se deu.

It's incredible," she sighed. My eyebrows brushed Isabelle's eyebrows. "It's incredible the way I'm seeing you

The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.

I cannot bear a mother's tears.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.

Press no further with hate.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from choking to death this afternoon while the world was going on outside in the sunshine?

We weren't put on Earth to exclude each other.

The only cure for loneliness be givin'. When you be givin' you ain't got time to think 'bout what you don't got. But you got to give with your heart. You got to give from your heart. That's the only sure way to beat back that old demon o' loneliness.

Seems that folks who try to hide it the most end up judging the most. Guess they figure if they judge other people's garbage it makes their own not quite so dirty.

I'm realizing human nature is a very difficult thing to escape. We can be self-righteous, or realize much of what we hate in others is what we have inside ourselves.

God might never have wanted blacks to be hauled to this country as slaves, but now that we're here, I know for certain he wants the hatin' to stop. It's our job to make sure it happens, at least in our own hearts. I reckon those are the only ones we can really answer for.

You can't do people's thinkin' and feelin' for dem, Rose. Some folks you ain't neber gonna figure out—you just got to accept them where they be. Dere ain't no way to get inside a person's head and figure out what makes them be the way they be. You just got to accept them.

When people fight something with hate and anger, they close the doors to actual change because they close the doors of the person's heart they are trying to change.

ability to read her heart—to see beyond the surface to what was boiling just underneath.

I have come to believe that most people, seeing life from their own perspective, think they are doing the very best thing they can. Others, including myself, may think they have the ability to see things more clearly, and maybe we can, but a person can only act from their own perceptions. I find myself more able to find understanding and acceptance

When people fight something with hate and anger, they close the doors to actual change because they close the doors of the person's heart

When you're bereaved you're so all over the place that you might find a book heart-warming on a Tuesday and mindless nonsense on a Wednesday.

We are here," I said, "just to stagger on. To be nice to each other. To be kind. That's all there is to it. Life is," I went on, warming to my theme, "one big mystery. If you ask what it means you just waste time when you could be making someone else's life happier.

One learns more,' she said to me one day, 'talking to ignorant people about their own affairs, than in addressing oneself to