Quotes About Empathy

plants are willful and crafty and after something, just like people.

Culture) Some part of us could model some other modeler. and out of that simple loop came all the love and culture, the ridiculous overflow of gifts.

You're studying what makes some people take the living world seriously when the only real thing for everyone else is other people.

Buddhism, the Four Immeasurables. "There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.

We're sorry. We didn't know how hard it is for you to grow back.

him. It came from Buddhism, the Four Immeasurables. "There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.

What we care for, we will grow to resemble. And what we resemble will hold us, when we are us no longer. . . .

Could there be whites who might not, after all, hate her on sight for the ungivable forgiveness they needed from her?

She might live with anything except being forgiven.

The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.

This is what people do- solve their own problems in others' lives.

May all sentient beings be free from needless suffering.

People. So much pain.

people see better what looks like them.

We only see things that look like us.

When she speaks again, the softness shatters him. "I never knew how strong a drug other people are." "The strongest. Or at least the most widely abused." "How long does it take to . . . detox?" He considers. "Nobody's ever clean.

The people inside these changed lives differ from us only in degree. Each of us has inhabited these baffling islands, if only briefly.

Kindness may look for something in return, but that doesn't make it any less kind." Perhaps

You're studying what makes some people take the living world seriously when the only real thing for everyone else is other people. You should be studying everyone who thinks that only people matter.

People who still love words have to be forgiven everything.

listen to what other people called silence

People want a better story than they get." The wild-haired sadhu leans forward so fast he almost pitches out of his wheelchair. "Yes! And what do all good stories do?" There are no takers. Neelay holds up his arms and extends his palms in the oddest gesture. In another moment, leaves will grow from his fingers. Birds will come and nest in them. "They kill you a little. They turn you into something you weren't.

This is what people do—solve their own problems in others' lives.