Quotes About Empathy

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We ought to get the RSPCA after them. It's cruel to push dogs through coal-holes and leave them there in the darkness. For all we know they have no food or drink.

Tim didn't seem to like the storm either. He sat close by George, his ears cocked, and growled whenever the thunder rumbled. The children fed him with titbits and he ate them eagerly, for he was hungry too.

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.

Holly frowned at her. Glad to see you've forgiven yourself so quickly. Harboring feelings of guilt can have a negative affect on mental health. Child geniuses, growled Holly. Genii, said Minerva.

Don't hate me forever, Arty, whispered Holly. I couldn't bear that.

This might hurt a little is universal code for this will definitely hurt a lot

I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up.

If we make it through this, we will be friends. Bonded by trauma.

Artemis turned and stared at his friend with the blue eyes. Holly was staring back, and she was smiling. "I remember," she said aloud. "You saved me." Artemis smiled back. "It never happened," he said.

In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.

I am not qualified to deal with this. Why does everyone I meet seem to have mental problems? Ah...but did they have mental problems before meeting you? Who's the common denominator here, Dan? I do not have mental problems! I say to the voice in my head, perfectly aware how damning it would sound were I to say it aloud.

I tried to talk about National Geographic one night, and Jason gave me a look like I was insulting him, so I moved on to a safer subject: which of the girls have implants.

Nobody ever got rich by wearing a heart on their sleeve, unless it was someone else's heart.

I feel him near in the twist of me guts. It's something I've always been able to do. --The Reluctant Assassin

Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.

I am older and have more control over my empathy," said Qwan. "That's why I didn't throw up." And having said that, he threw up.

Wowbagger felt Trillian squeeze his arm and his anxiety drained away. He looked at her. How was that possible? How did you do that?

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.

Do not afflict others with anything that you yourself would not wish to suffer. if you would not like to be a slave, make sure no one is your slave. If you have slaves, you yourself are the greatest slave, for just as freedom is incompatible with slavery, so goodness is incompatible with hypocrisy.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Whenever anyone criticizes or wrongs you, remember that they are only doing or saying what they think is right. They cannot be guided by your views, only their own; so if their views are wrong, they are the ones who suffer insofar as they are misguided.

What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.

Why are you pestering me, pal? My own evils are enough for me.