Quotes About Empathy

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime.

As appreciative as I had already been for their kindness, now I was astounded. In the midst of such heartbreak, this good couple had reached out to me in my pain. For the first time in a long while, I felt hope in humanity.

There are people whom we've never met in person yet feel closer to than those we brush up against in real life.

We tend to demonize those we inflict pain on. It lessens our guilt.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

La seule chose qui soit pire que la mort, c'est d'assister à celle des gens qu'on aime.

Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest. Zeke

To open the book of another's life requires great care, as the pages must be turned with delicacy and caution -- but it is usually worth the effort.

Vamos a cortar ese güero.

It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts

People always say that no matter how awful things are, there's always someone suffering more. It's true. It's not really helpful, but it's true.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others.

but a good writer knows when to shut up and listen.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. —CHARLES JAMES'S DIARY

You can tell a lot about a man by watching how he treats those he doesn't have to be nice to.

between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.' " She looked up.

Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness – sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

I found myself changing into the very thing I hated. That's what hate does—it remakes us in its image.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

You darling, sweet man. I'm so sorry for your pain. I wish I could have taken it from you. But you've carried it long enough. You need to let it go.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.