Quotes About Empathy

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

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

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

Why should we feel sad when the Hindu brothers choose to leave our country? Do we mourn when we have indigestion and materials leave our bodies?

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

Hate can only exist where people refuse to speak out against it.

A true leader breeds love, as well as respect.

Say Sorry is not a Shame but a Solution

After all, only women are able really to love.

You've always been fond of understanding people too well." "They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily.

I want to live so that everything around me remains clean. I want to think about other people more. Pushing people out of the way and trying to climb over their heads are no good. Chasing nothing but money – that's no good eiher, like knocking your brains out trying to be a little more famous, a little more powerful. To hear the birds song and to say "Ah, they're singing!" To see the flowers and to say "Ah they're blooming!" That,s the way to live.

To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself. -Doctor K?saku Tokita (Paprika)

God has pity on kindergarten children.He has less pity on school children.And on grownups he has no pity at all,he leaves them alone,and sometimes they must crawl on all foursin the burning sandto reach the first-aid stationcovered with blood.

I tried to go out into my time and to know, but I couldn't get any farther than the body of the woman beside me.

Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.