Quotes About Empathy

Às vezes o silêncio é muito mais convincente do que a palavra.

Não dá não dá ela repetia mostrando o dinheirinho que não dava embolado na mão. Mas dar mesmo até que ela deu bastante. Pra meu gosto até que ela deu demais. Uma corja de piolhentos pedindo e ela dando.

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

Warm hearts are better than great thoughts.

This is what Jesus Christ came to do. Not to show how we can escape hell and get into heaven, but to show how we can escape from ourselves and become other selves; to show how we may cease to be what we are and become what we desire to be. He came that he might teach us and empower us to be the men we want to be, the men we ought to be.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

My mother is bold in her caused," George said. "We have never had a runaway slave come to our door, but I too would help him. My mother and I were forced to leave North Carolina when we freed our slaves. The anger our former neighbors and friends turned on us told us much. When a person does what is right, it stirs the rage of those who will not turn from doing the same evil.

Royale's confidence tore something inside Honor. For a moment Honor hated her white skin, hated that this woman would fear her on that basis alone.

In this life, there will be trials," Blessing murmured. "If we love, we suffer not only our own trials but those of our beloved.

I don't just want to write a story. I want to pull the reader into my ink so they feel the cold of a snowy forest or the pain of a tortured soul. I want them to laugh and cry, to smile and sigh, and when they reach the end of the book and find themselves wishing it hadn't ended...then I've done my job.

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

it was on Rawlins's shoulders that they sobbed their hearts out when their babies were taken from them.

Tennison was about to reply when Burkin caught her eye. He gripped her elbow and whispered, "Leave the room, let him cry, leave him . . 

Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug em so tight they cant wiggle.

Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life

We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.'' HENRI NOUWEN

One thing I have learned during these past few terrible years is that our grief and sorrow should be shared, not carried alone.

So often I have felt alone in my journey, yet I've been afraid to let anyone see my fear and weakness.

Don't hate them," Mama said as if reading Ans's mind. "They'll win if we hate them.

When you forgive someone, you make a choice to cancel the debt he owes you.