Quotes About Empathy

Wendre had appealed to Horn as no woman ever had. She had a man's mind and a woman's heart. She was self-reliant, proud, courageous. She grasped the situation quickly, accepted the odds, and did what had to be done without complaining. This was no spoiled child of empire, no sheltered darling of an all-powerful father; this was a woman fit to stand and fight beside any barbarian from the restless marches, made for love and ready to battle for it.

You don't know who your friends are ... until you're not like them anymore.

Why don't boys like girls as they are?' 'They bore easy cause the so deadhead. Sometimes they want you mami, sometimes sis, sometimes lovergirl. You game with boys you got to know who you are and not let them tell you'.

Real love would not take more than it gave. It would not be selfish.

We're all the same inside.

I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied.

To make a good impression, all you have to do is talk to people, look them in the eye, and show them respect and love.

Why is it that you can bear pain, but someone's kindness makes you cry?

But was it snobbery to feel that someone's world was too different from yours to ever meld, despite what he had felt back among the light and chatter? Was it prejudiced to acknowledge that skin colour did make a difference, simply because it did matter to so many?

The terrible thing about pain is that it doesn't matter, it still hurts. It hurts like hell.

Poetry in here keeps the conversation open between the living and the dead, the misunderstood and the wise, the imprisoned and the free. Koestler Voices Vol. 3

We're not alive to be alone on the planet. We're alive to share, to eat together and love together and laugh together and cry together. If you can never love because you will always lose, what reason is there to live?

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

I want to learn about other cultures. I want to hear other voices.

God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

If they could not understand the words about Jesus then we Christians should show them what He was like by the way we lived. I remembered He had said, 'If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.' So this was the beginning of what I called 'walking the extra mile'. There seemed to be a lot of Christians who did not mind walking one, not many who could be bothered to walk two, and no one who wanted to walk three. Those in need that I met seemed to need a marathon.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives

Henry Flagler: "Do unto others as they would do unto you—and do it first.

I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let's say they're a doctor), then you realize they're actually talking about actually talking about themselves. The patient's open-heart surgery is nothing compared to their own messed-up heart or whatever. It's selfish. And means they're not concentrating, which is medical negligence.

It's tricky being shy. You blame yourself for it, and other people blame you too.

I feel like people are always speaking with their eyes, their bodies, their hands, gestures, intonation, and their words - only mostly all we hear are the words. And the words get in the way. So if we just spoke with our eyes we might get closer to the truth.

We forgive our friends their darkness and focus on their light. Assuming the light returns. If it doesn't, well, the friend must want to sleep, so shut the door and leave them to it.

How shall the love of God be understood by those who have been nurtured in sight only of the greed of man?