Quotes About Empathy

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy. Life smiles at you when you are happy. But, Life salutes you when you make others happy.

Never discuss your problem with someone incapable of contributing to the solution.

One of the stupidest mistake in life is thinking that the person who hurt you won't hurt you again.

So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. But you'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken

I want my life to be an example of love where even though there are problems and fights there is more of understanding, kindness and love.

One thing about life is, there will be people that enter into your life, even at a distance, who will make no effort to get to know you, but will instead just choose not to like you.

Brave people don't hurt others. They take every pain in their stride. Forgiveness is their virtue. They neither hold anger or prejudice against others. Brave people strive for creating positive changes and to make life better for everyone and in the process they make their life meaningful.

Kindness is not to be mistaken for weakness, nor forgiveness for acceptance. Its about knowing resentment of any kind is not on the path to happiness.

Don't compare your life with others, you have no idea what their journey is all about.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Let him." He kneels, smooths back the hair on my forehead. I am wrapped in blankets, to muffle the smell.

Once again, I wished that someone else were there on the island. Not to commiserate now, but to cherish him with me. I would say, Look, can you believe it? We have come through the rocks and winds. I failed him, yet he is a sweet wonder of this world.

How did it happen?" There was a piece of me that shouted its alarm: if you speak he will turn gray and hate you. But I pushed past it. If he turned gray, then he did. I would not go on anymore weaving my cloths by day and unraveling them again at night, making nothing. I told him the whole tale of it, each jealousy and folly and all the lives that had been lost because of me.

Is one life worth more than another? I have never thought so.

No man is worth more than another, wherever they he is from

I have no need to forgive you. You cannot offend me." They were rash words, bu I said them with all the conviction of my heart.

He is a connoisseur of pain.

They would both have run screaming at the first tooth. They cannot bear any pain at all. They are not like us.

How often in those days did I think of Odysseus' smiling child? I tried his trick, along with all the rest. Held my son's floppy body up into the air, promised him he was safe. He only screamed louder. Whatever made the prince Telemachus so sweet, I thought, it must have come from Penelope. This was the child I deserved.

I loved this about him. No matter how many times I asked, he answered me as if it were the first time.

It had never truly been anger, only fear and sorrow.

Aquiles solloza. Me acuna, no come ni pronuncia otra palabra que no sea mi nombre. Contemplo su rostro como si lo viera a través del agua, igual que un pez observa el sol. Vierte una catarata de lágrimas, pero yo no puedo enjugárselas. Este es mi elemento ahora: la media vida de un espíritu insepulto.

Si uno te acechara, debes darle algo que desee más que a ti»,