Quotes About Empathy

If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

And none will hear the postman's knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?

The underlying reason for writing is to bridge the gulf between one person and another.

Only as I am, can I love you as you are

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

You shall love your crooked neighbour with your crooked heart.

Look into my eyes, and you will see me there--all, all that is in my heart.' 'Oh, I know what I should see there!'...'What would you see? Tell me?' 'There is a little black ball in the middle of your eye; I should see myself in it no bigger than that,' and she marked off about an eighth of her little finger-nail. 'There is a pool in the wood, and I look down and see myself there. That is better. Just as large as I am--not small and black like a small, small fly.

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

Your work has been described as touching the soul of the reader. That's the way I felt. Feel. Honestly. You've touched my soul. I'm sorry if I sound like a middle-aged librarian at a book-autographing session.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

If it weren't for second chances, we'd all be alone.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.

It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.

You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.