Quotes About Empathy

The stupendous task of human regeneration will be accomplished only by the purified vision of hearts that grow not cold.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened by convictions.

I was by now used to people being surprised by me and my background, and their surprise offended me. I was always having to be what I was looking for in the world, wishing the person I would become already existed — some other I before me. I was forever finding even the tiniest way to identify with someone to escape how empty the world seemed to be of what I was.

Destroying art is practice for destroying people.

Reading teaches me the answers to the problems I haven't had yet, or to problems I didn't even know how to describe. And when I feel less alone with what troubles me, it is easier to find solutions. A book to me is like a friend, a shelter, advice, an argument with someone who cares enough to argue with me for a better answer than the one we both already have. Books aren't just a door to another world-each book is part of a door to the whole world, a door that always has more behind it.

My mother's most common childhood memory of me is standing next to me trying to be heard over the voice on the page. I didn't really commit to writing until I understood that it meant making that happen for someone else.

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

What would you read to someone who was dying?" Annie Dillard had asked our class. She wanted this to be the standard for our work. There, at the memorial service for my friend, I thought of another: Dying, what stories would you tell?

I tilt my head back and carefully toss my hair over my right shoulder in the way I have seen my younger sister do. I realize I know one more thing about her than I did before - what it feels like to do this and why you would. It's like your own little thunderclap.

Socialism with a human face.

Infinite are man's expressions of beauty and love; open your eyes your ears and your heart to them and you will unite the peoples of the world." "Entre los hombres, infinitas son las expresiones de la belleza y del amor; al abrirse a ellas los ojos, los oídos y los corazones seunirán los pueblos del mundo.

Real meaning comes from taking care of those you love, letting them know how you feel. Fortunately, we have countless opportunities to give a bit of ourselves each day through a thoughtful act, a word of appreciation, or a sense of understanding.

You can awaken people by dreaming their dreams more clearly than they dream themselves.

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

It was so wonderful to find people who were, well, like people should be.

Quando si ama veramente qualcuno, disse lei, avesse anche perduto gli occhi, si riuscirebbe comunque a vederlo, e avesse anche perduto le braccia, si riuscirebbe comunque ad abbracciarlo.

And we need to know what it is to be human, if we are to avoid becoming narcissists.

The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.

Is this what real homelessness is like? Not just a particular set of roof and walls gone, but a sense of the death of companionship?

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Do not act meanly, do not be unkind, because the time for setting things right may pass before your heart changes course. Isabel Dalhousie

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?