Quotes About Empathy

But somehow, over these last months, Laila and Aziza—a harami like herself, as it turned out—had become extensions of her, and now, without them, the life Mariam had tolerated for so long suddenly seemed intolerable.

Man säger inte till någon att putsa skorna åt en ena dagen och tilltalar henne som en syster nästa.

Pero espero que prestes atención a lo siguiente: el hombre sin conciencia, sin bondad, no sufre. Espero que tu sufrimiento llegue a su fin con este viaje a Afganistán.

Lo que hiciste estuvo mal, Amir jan, pero no olvides que cuando los hechos sucedieron tú eras un niño. Un niño con problemas. Por aquel entonces eras demasiado duro contigo mismo, y sigues siéndolo...

A veces pienso que todo lo que hizo, dar de comer a los pobres de la calle, construir el orfanato, dejar dinero a los amigos necesitados..., era su forma de redimirse. Y en eso, creo, consiste la auténtica redención, Amir jan: en el sentimiento de culpa que desemboca en la bondad.

Talvez compreender apenas quando as coisas já não têm remédio seja o castigo justo para os que não tiveram coração.

I wanted to pull him close, hold him, tell him the world had been unkind to him, not the other way around.

One is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart.

Pari has not told the children about the suicide. They may learn one day, probably will. But they wouldn't learn it from her. She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them You are not enough. For Pari, the children and Eric have always been enough. They always will be.

entre las personas que se habían criado del mismo pecho existían unos lazos de hermandad que ni el tiempo podía romper.

Each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up in the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.

En eso consistía volar cometas; en dejar que tu cabeza volara junto a ella.

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone.

Existuje spôsob, ako sa staÃ…Â¥ zase dobrým...

In my experience, men who understand women as well as you seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

In my experience, men who undestand women as well as you seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

Seseorang yang tidak memiliki kesadaran, tidak memiliki kebaikan, tidak akan pernah menderita.

Dan inilah yang aku inginkan untuk kau pahami bahwa kebaikan, kebaikan yang nyata, muncul akibat rasa bersalah.

But I think a big part of the reason I didn't care about Soraya's past was that I had one of my own. I knew all about regret.

Une isha si nje pacient qe nuk i thote dot mjekut se ku i dhemb, por vetem qe ka dhembje.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind When just the art of being kind is all that the sad world needs.

Oh the gladness of her gladness when she's glad, And the sadness of her sadness when she's sad; But the gladness of her gladness, And the sadness of her sadness, Are as nothing, Charles, To the badness of her badness when she is bad.

longer the pointed finger of condemnation, but the extended hand of hope; and an entire generation is recognizing this like never before, and reaching out for it.