Quotes About Empathy

Exercise your heart by lifting other people up!" ~Michelle Cole

Compassion struggled in Maud; uselessly, like a puppy in a sack.

When I started at my first church," Tom went on, "I was on fire with everything I wanted to do. I moved in, opened my office door, and one by one each staff person and maybe half the members came in and complained about everyone else. I called my mentor and said, 'I can't take it! I have ideas! I want to get to work, not be a wailing wall!' And he said, 'This is your work. Listening to people. Managing people.

If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich.

I think there are many church members and churches in general that spend too much time policing the behavior of others than to pray for them that God helps them to make the changes they need to in their lives.

You need not hate them, for that hurts you too,' she explained. 'It is sufficient to laugh at them.

That's because I've learned how to use it [smile], Woserit said. I don't pass it out like an old woman giving free milk to the village cats. It's something that must be controlled, and for you especially. You use it on anyone. You must learn to be more judicious.

I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.

And once we die, what we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. [Pericles]

For nonreaders, life is simply what they touch and see, not what they feel when they open the pages of a play and are transported to the Forest of Arden or Illyria. Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else. A tree is a tree to them; it is never a magical doorway to another world populated with beings that don't exist here.

we can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction. Even trying is against the laws of samsara.

We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't chose their direction.

He's always asking: 'Is that new? I haven't seen that before.' It's like, Why don't you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

Voor jou is het anders... Nee, dat is het niet, wilde ze wel uitschreeuwen. Snap je dan niet dat jij en Wolf de eerste vrienden zijn die ik ooit heb gehad? - Renn

Je bent nog steeds mijn vriend!' riep ze uit. 'Ik ben nog steeds dezelfde Renn!

Vind je het erg?' 'Hoe bedoel je?' 'Over... wat ik ben.' Tot zijn verbazing grinnikte ze. 'Torak, je bent een wie, niet een wat! Je bent nog steeds een iemand.

I had never really thought of children as people, just as mysterious and needy creatures on their way to something greater.

There's something special about her. When she helped me with her touch-" "Exactly what was she touching that was so memorable for you?" "Watch your mouth.

Sorry," I said. "Don't be sorry." She sent a sneer in the direction of Colin who'd rejoined his friends on the other side of the theatre. "The fact he's still breathing isn't your fault.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn't look too closely at another person's pain.