Quotes About Empathy

If you want a rich life, then enrich the lives of others.

Reading brings the world into your heart

Feeling called or needing to change people or situations "for their own good" is often quite aggressive and self-centered. Furthermore, in a world characterized by multiple diversities, the greatest compassion of all is to stop interfering so much with others, to stop claiming to know what everyone else should do and think, and to let them be who they are, just as we want to continue being who we are without exclusivists badgering us to imitate them.

We have to replace the love of power with the power of love.' 

Conscripts or not, oppressed or free, honey, the conspiracy of the living is to help one another carry on.

The nature of being a minority is to explain, ad nauseum, how you see the world, assuming the majority can take time away from their own self-indulgence to listen.

I realized that liking or not liking someone was irrelevant. It was the time in history that you shared. A time binds you to another person just as passions tie to you to the dead.

What love had been given her she wished to give to others. Most times they didn't much want it but hounds, horses, cats, and dogs did and they were a gift from the gods, too.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here I am," but to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here YOU are.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.

These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

let your love out

Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don't understand, Matilda said to her. 'Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same. The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen.' 'A fine writer will always make you feel that,' Mrs Phelps said . 'And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

So shines a good deed in a weary world.

The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone. -Matilda

Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again. Do any of us children, she wondered, ever stop to ask ourselves where our teachers go when school is over for the day? Do we wonder if they live alone, or if there is a mother at home or a sister or a husband?

Da igual quién seas o qué aspecto tengas mientras alguien te quiera.

There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.

doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

as much as the next man

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives...All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen

There's someone over there needs a helping hand and it's our job to give it.

Dear children far across the sea, How nice of you to write to me. I love to hear the things you say When you are miles and miles away. All children, and I think I'm right, Are nicer when they're out of sight!