Quotes About Empathy

So, go talk to flowers about bulls and such, Aphrodite said. I'll go talk to flowers, Stevie Rae said.

If you have good friends, no matter how life is sucking, they can make you laugh.

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh.

That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.

Så här uttryckte Publius Terentius Afer det för mer än tvåtusen år sedan: Jag är människa: inget mänskligt är mig främmande. Och det är en identitet som bör kunna förena oss alla.

Jag hoppas starta samtal, inte avsluta dem.

The boundary of your state is not the boundary of your moral concern.

I Nya Testamentet finns till exempel liknelsen om den barmhärtige samariern. ... Hur kan vi tillämpa den principen i våra stressiga liv på 2000-talet? Innebär det att var och en av oss borde ta hand om en familj med syriska flyktingar?

Sometimes it was hard to discern judgment from coldness and self-absorption.

People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.

If voices had colour, hers would have been like a rainbow. It made words LIVE. Whatever she said became a breathing entity, not a mere verbal statement or utterance.

I'm not interested to believe in something, but to understand the people who believe.

Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain... only straw. Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? Scarecrow: I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they? Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.

The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. You people with hearts, he said, have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.

No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country.

If I had a heart

We all have our weaknesses, dear friends; so we must strive to be considerate of one another.

Nothing can resist your kind heart and your sharp axe.

Suppose we try kindness, suggested the Tin Woodman. I've heard that anyone can be conquered with kindness, no matter how ugly they may be. At

for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

No one has the right to destroy any living creatures, however evil they may be, or to hurt them or make them unhappy. I will not fight, even to save my kingdom.