Quotes About Empathy

Come, let us be bored together

An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

In fact, some neurologists now say that the basic human need is to be the "sparkle in someone's eye." When you catch a glimpse of a child's face as she runs toward an awaiting parent with arms outstretched in unrestrained joy, you can witness firsthand that incredible power that comes from "being the sparkle in someone's eye.

I am glad to be with you and treat your weakness tenderly.

The historian will tell you what happened. The Novelist will tell you what it felt like. And the historical fiction writer does both!

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise

feeling is first

i think you will be tired of telling me & my dreams to go to hell

Without a heart the animal is very very kind so kind it wouldn't like a soul and couldn't use a mind.

Man's capacity to rise above his social and historical situation seems to be conditioned by the sensitivity with which he recognizes the extent of his involvement in it.

And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.

A message of consolation to Greek brothers in their prison camps, and to my Haitian brothers and Nicaraguan brothers and Dominican brothers and South African brothers and Spanish brothers and to my brothers in South Vietnam, all in their prison camps: You are in the free world!

I knew he was the real thing because when he laughed other men at the table laughed with him.

You have to know someone to want to kill him.

should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.

But no one was prouder of me or happier for me than Branwell, and I think he would not have been prouder or happier if he had won himself. And I don't know anyone anywhere who has a friend like that.

Mrs. Olinski was the first teacher Epiphany ever had who taught from a wheelchair.

Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.

Only connect!

Love will heal What language fails to know