Quotes About Empathy

I get a lot of grief that doesn't belong to me, and that isn't real. But it hurts.

I know that when she talks about God, she doesn't mean what I mean. I'm not sure that matters. If she stays with us, obeys our rules, joins in our joys, sorrows, and celebrations, works alongside us, it doesn't matter

Consigo tolerar muita dor sem me deixar abater. Tive que aprender a fazer isso. Mas foi difícil, hoje, continuar pedalando e acompanhar os outros quando todo mundo que eu via fazia com que me sentisse cada vez pior.

If everyone could feel everyone else's pain, who would torture? Who would cause anyone unnecessary pain?

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

Maybe sometimes it takes more courage not to fight. -Makino

Any person who hurts Nami-san's feelings I won't let them live peacefully. -Sanji

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

Treasure the friendship you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

Compassion itself is noble.

When you feel authentic love toward others, you will be deeply moved to act. You will not rest until you have found ways to secure the happiness of all those you are able to include in your feelings of love. As you learn to love more and more widely, your love will motivate you to act to benefit not just the few people in your inner circle, but your whole society, and eventually, the whole world. This makes love an immensely powerful basis for social action of any sort.

When you feel authentic love toward others, you will be deeply moved to act. You will not rest until you have found ways to secure the happiness of all those you are able to include in your feelings of love. As you learn to love more and more widely, your love will motivate you to act to benefit not just the few people in your inner circle, but your whole society, and eventually, the whole world. – 17th Karmapa

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

we are both in essence intelligent and sensitive beings, we can rise far above our differences, to reach across the gulf that separates us, and be together in this exquisite union of opposites.

It is much harder to forgive yourself than it is to forgive others. You will not master the act of forgiveness until you start with yourself.

That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.

this was why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.

We came together like months in a lunar year, measured in nights, dividing perfectly into female phases. Like women anywhere living in groups we had synchronous menses. And had no need of a wound, a puncture, to seal our bond.

When the employees of "Canada" or of the "Bekleidungskammer" stole warm clothing for their ragged comrades, that was not common theft; it was an act of social solidarity.