Quotes About Empathy

When I return I shall be as other men are. I have always liked you as you were, said Dorothy simply.

That is all that makes life worth our while—to do good deeds and to help those less fortunate than ourselves.

But I do not wish to fight, declared Ozma, firmly. No one has the right to destroy any living creatures, however evil they may be, or to hurt them or make them unhappy.

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. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much.

Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it. 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. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

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. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much. The Tin Woodman

a good heart is, I believe, much more desirable than education or brains.

to console the girl for the loss of her feathered friend.

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.

Nothing can resist your kind heart and your sharp axe. As

But anyway his heart is kind and gentle and that is better than being wise.

You have some queer friends, Dorothy, she said. The queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends, was the answer.

Vocês que têm coração, podem sempre se guiar por ele, e nunca fazem mal aos outros. Mas eu não tenho coração, e por isso preciso tomar muito cuidado.

Cara dama, por que reprova Este aqui, pobre palhaço? Uma moça assim, tão nova, De coraçãozinho de aço

I wouldn't ask anyone to take this dreadful form, said Woot; it wouldn't be right, you know. I've been a monkey for some time, now, and I don't like it. It makes me ashamed to be a beast of this sort when by right of birth I'm a boy; so I'm sure it would be wicked to ask anyone else to take my place. They

If they are really true friends, they may be anything they like, for all of me.

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. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much

I never criticise my friends. If they are really true friends, they may be anything they like, for all of me.

when people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite--always.

Well, in a way she might be right. It might be better if he were married...It all came back to the fact that he was sure nobody would ever understand him as well as he understood himself.

I am your friend and you are mine, for always, she said. Such a friend as I never had before. I have had many dear and beloved friends—but there is a something in you, Leslie, that I never found in anyone else. You have more to offer me in that rich nature of yours, and I have more to give you than I had in my careless girlhood. We are both women—and friends forever. They clasped hands and smiled at each other through the tears that filled the gray eyes and the blue.

Dora is too good," said Anne. "She'd behave just as well if there wasn't a soul to tell her what to do. She was born already brought up, so she doesn't need us; and I think," concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, "that we always love best the people who need us. Davy needs us badly.