Quotes About Empathy

Sometimes when he would tell me those stories his eyes would fill with tears. People used to say he was sentimental, but it was because he cared. He felt everything deeply. People around here used to call a man like him 'soft.' 'Maybe so,' he used to say, 'but I'm always hard when I have to be, you know that.' He was full of little double meanings like that, my husband.

Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. It's how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Quanto a mim, antes quero que os outros fiquem com os defeitos, do que compartilhar deles.

Queridos amigos; todos los días oigo decir entre vosotros: "Soy pobre, no puedo hacer caridad"; y veo también que os falta la indulgencia para vuestros semejantes; nada les perdonáis, y os constituís en jueces, a menudo severos, sin preguntaros si estaríais satisfechos de que hicieran otro tanto con vosotros. ¿Acaso la indulgencia no es también caridad? Los que sólo podéis hacer la caridad indulgente, hacedla al menos, pero hacedla con grandeza.

La caridad y la fraternidad no se decretan con leyes; si no están en el corazón, el egoísmo las ahogará siempre; hacérselas penetrar, es obra del Espiritismo.

Cristo vino y dijo: Volved bien por mal. Dijo más: "No os resistáis al mal que os quieran hacer; "sí os hieren en una mejilla presentadles la otra".

La caridad es la virtud fundamental que debe sostener todo el edificio de las virtudes terrestres; sin ellas, las otras no existen. Sin la caridad no hay esperanza en una vida mejor, no hay interés moral que nos guíe; sin caridad no hay fe, porque la fe sólo es un rayo puro que hace brillar a un alma caritativa.

Save your anger to fight injustice. Forgive the rest.

Thank you. You're a kind person. It doesn't cost anything to be kind. People forget. Kindness doesn't cost a dime.

my aim in writing The Watch That Ends the Night was not to present history. My aim was to present humanity. The people represented in this book lived and breathed and loved. They were as real as you or me. They could have been any one of us.

I can tell a lot about people just by watching them go about their day. And from where I sits in the crow's nest, a rich man and a poor man looks equally small.

I can tell a lot about people just by watching them going about their day. And from where I sits in the crow's nest, a rich man and a poor man looks equally small.

You can't turn your back on people who need your help. It's a matter of decency.

I want to give back." He looked at her and said in all seriousness, "Why? What did you take?

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Lincoln was "the first great man that I talked with in the United States freely who in no single instance reminded me of the difference between himself and myself, or the difference of color."92 Nor did Lincoln mean

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Love is a powerful force. It can heal wounds, bridge divides, and bring hope to the hopeless.

no matter what, when you leave your family tell them you love them. It doesn't matter if you had a disagreement, a fight, if you're still angry even after a good night's sleep. Tell them you love them and you'll work it out, no matter what, because tomorrow is never guaranteed.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

One of the best things about having children is that it enables you to have the same loving memories as another person - you can summon the same past. Two flashbacks but with a single image.

to serve so selflessly, you have to subdue something in yourself.