Quotes About Empathy

Disabled people caring for each other can be a place of deep healing," says Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.

No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain. Me".

Daddy got mad when people made assumptions about him, but I liked it. It made me feel someone wanted to know me. Even if they were wrong, it didn't matter. It mattered only that they were trying.

That though passageway came with a surprising revelation. When life forces you to face yourself, what awaits in the mirror is a gift: vulnerability. Your heart is pierced. You're broken open. You're hyper-aware of what you're feeling.

In a single session, with the brand of rapid-fire energy that had fueled our work together thus far, we wrote "We Are Here." Two lines of the song conveyed the message I most hoped would resonate: "We are here for all of us Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Our souls were brought together so we could love each other.

When you love someone, you love their journey—

I've spent so many years withholding parts of myself, sacrificing my spirit to make others feel comfortable. But now, I'm done with pretending, with living in a prison of my own creation. I'm done with dimming my light.

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

Habrá alguna ciudad en el mundo que tenga un monumento reivindicatorio a la prostituta? ¿Un monumento rodeado de jardines y de tristeza, un monumento frente al cual las mujeres suspiren y los hombres se llenen de vergüenza?

Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying.

The great souls distinguish with two things; their greater needs and their greater agony.

Being able to let go of a righteous position is a key to creating partnership.

gifts of words and time and touch.

do with each other?" Claudia smiled a knowing smile.

Het is geen luipaard, het is een cheeta. Het is Charlie. Mijn cheeta... mijn huischeeta... Ik heb vreselijk gehuild toen hij wegging.' - Nick 'De echte cheeta is bij je weggegaan. Maar de geest, de daemon die hem naar je toe heeft gebracht, gaat nooit weg. De daemon is je beste vriend.' - Claire

Giving was better than getting

The risk of all friendship is, alas, a little grief.

It's not your fault there is evil in the world" Cadvan to Maerad

The law is that the hungry must be fed, and the homeless must be housed, and the sick must be healed. That is the way of the Light." Maerad

Friends can only do their best. -Pip

The law is that the hungry must be fed, and the homeless must be housed, and the sick must be healed. That is the way of the Light.

That's an interesting phrase, isn't it? Open up. Like you rip yourself open and let others see your insides.