Quotes About Empathy

Love is poverty, kenosis. Knowing one's neighbour is inseparable from an attitude of non-possession.

How can we judge another person without imprisoning that person in his past acts? Without shackling him to one moment of his development?

I più bei regali sono quelli che si danno da cuore a cuore.

Camus] "The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.

La générosité est un geste sans limites que l'âme du monde ressent à chaque instant. La Confession de Massoud

La charité est un remède à l'angoisse. La Confession de Massoud

Lorsque le monde se mettra à jeter des fleurs et non plus des bombes, le combat de l'amour sera gagné.

Un buon libro lascia al lettore l'impressione di leggere qualcosa della propria esperienza personale. Quando la letteratura è al suo apice ci sembra che d'improvviso ricordiamo qualcosa d'importante che sapevamo ma abbiamo scordato.

Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.

Be a Human not a Homosapien

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

You cannot hate other people without hating your self.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.

The writer who shuts himself up in a room and first goes on a journey inside himself will, over the years, discover literature's eternal rule: he must have the artistry to tell his own stories as if they were other people's stories, and to tell other people's stories as if they were his own, for this is what literature is.

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.