Quotes About Empathy

And I was pleased, because I felt that he had seen her, had understood why I spent my days with her when he was gone. She was one of us now, I thought. A member of our circle, for life.

Despite your wet-mouse weeping, I saw how you would not be ground into the earth. You loathed them as I did. I think it is where our power comes from.

El príncipe decía lo que pensaba y se sorprendía cuando tú no lo hacías. Algunas personas habrían tomado esta actitud como una muestra de simplicidad, pero ¿no es una muestra de genialidad buscar un atajo al corazón?

Circe, he says, it will be alright. [...] and somehow, I am comforted. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

It was not honor that made Meleager fight, or his friends, or victory, or revenge, or even his own life. It was Cleopatra, on her knees before him, her face streaked with tears. Here is Phoinix's craft: Cleopatra, Patroclus. Her name built from the same pieces as mine, only reversed.

no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

Kol esam jauni, mums atrodo, kad visas širdies opas ken?iam pirmieji.

He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?

He fought to save you, and your darling reputation. Because he could not bear to see you suffer!

He would have of me only what I wanted to give.

Sometimes rising above is the only way to stop the hate from spreading. It's not what anyone expects, and it does make them stop and think.

We don't kill for no reason. As he spoke, the hummingbird pulsed between his palms like a heartbeat, whirred into the air and flew.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

Is there anything more harsh in this life than to be misjudged, and have one's motives entirely misunderstood?

We are real only in moments of kindness.

Somebody said, 'We are real only in moments of kindness.

But even when people are too weak to speak, or have lost consciousness, they can hear; hearing is the last sense to fade.

Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.

Liz hugged her. "It's all over now," she said. "I'm sorry about Black Magic, but

She'd never had a best friend before meeting Holly, and now she couldn't imagine life without her.

Liz pulled her best china from the top cupboard. "I invited Cecilly because she has nowhere else to go," she said. "It's Christmas. People shouldn't be alone at Christmas. It's not right." "It's not right that we're stuck with her, either," Holly muttered, but Mom didn't hear.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.