Quotes About Empathy

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

Always Try And Be Kind To Other People - Especially Women And Children.

Respect everybody you meet either Rich or Poor | Cute or Ugly | Locally or Internationally | Famous or Infamous.. afterall we're all sand

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

Humans need fantasy in order to be human.

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

This would go a lot easier if you'd stop screaming in pain, ' Zoe told the muscular man lying beneath her.

We fight the same and we love the same. Just because we are different does not mean that we aren't equal.

How do you hate someone who pulled you from the brink of death, not once, but twice?

These days the sun never cared to shine when people like me needed it most.

To read is to live inside a new world...

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.

Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' -- People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

My father loved people, children and pets.