Quotes About Empathy

Steady the feet of those who stumble and extend your hands to the sick. Feed the hungry and give rest to the weary. Awaken those who wish to arise and rouse those who sleep, for you embody vigorous understanding. If what is strong acts like this, it becomes even stronger.

People cannot see anything that really is without becoming like it.

To begin with, one must not cause grief to anyone, whether great or small, unbeliever or believer, and one must not give help to those who are well off.

Mom's are our best cheerleaders. No one else ever cares quite the same. Who else is going to be as angry at you when you do something wrong, or be as proud of you when you do something right?

Friendships were easy when life was going smoothly. What was hard was to be there for your friend when life got rough and the friendship was neither easy nor fun. The challenge was to forgive the friend when she failed.

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

Maybe it explains the reason why one person likes another. It's because their souls both thrum at the same frequency.

OUR MISSION IS THE ANIMALS!" 'Life Behind Bars Vol. 1 - Project Manager Mary Ann Collins

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

Reject hatred without hating.

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it before-the desperation, the agony, the need to find a reason to go on, and the inability to find it.

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

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Even though I know Christopher can be hard and even cruel, it doesn't matter. I can only remember the things that made him like that. I think I should always go on loving him whatever I found out about him. I think I shall love him even when I'm dead. Do you think that is silly?" "No. It's the only sort of love that's worth having.

Feeding is a form of love. He might not have said it, but the ritual must have comforted him.

It was true that one could be more alone with someone than by oneself.

Men! Why did they always have to be so difficult? "There will always be ups and downs, but I like to think if Nate's beside me, we'll get through it.

It's the talking that keeps people together, Christine. Don't let anybody tell you any different. A person's got to know that somebody cares about what he has to say.

Friends helped friends. They listened, comforted, shared, and encouraged.

An open heart didn't mean every man for himself. It meant doing what was best for the greater good. It meant doing in your heart what you knew to be the right thing to do, even if, maybe especially if, it also meant saying good-bye.

As the brains of colored women expanded, their hearts began to grow. No sooner had the heads of a favored few been filled with knowledge than their hearts yearned to dispense blessings to the less fortunate of their race.