Quotes About Empathy

I don't like reading about martyrs because they always make me feel petty and ashamed... ashamed to admit I hate to get out of bed on frosty mornings and shrink from a visit to the dentist!

What is imagination for if not to enable you to peep at life through other people's eyes?

It gives you a lovely, comfortable feeling to apologize and be forgiven, doesn't it?

JeÅ›li potrafisz spÄ™dzi? z kimÅ› póÅ' godziny w zupeÅ'nym milczeniu i nie czu? przy tym wcale skrepowania, ty i osoba ta mo?ecie zosta? przyjacióÅ'mi. JeÅ›li zaÅ› milczenie bÄ™dzie wam ci??yÅ'o, jesteÅ›cie sobie obcy i nie warto nawet stara? siÄ™ o zadzierzgniÄ™cie przyja?ni.

Miss Barry was a kindred spirit, after all,' Anne confided to Marilla. 'You wouldn't think so to look at her, but she is. You don't find it right out at first, as in Matthew's case, but after a while you come to see it. Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Never, if you can help it, be the bringer of ill news

Oh yes, I don't deny I married you because I was sorry for you. And then-I found you the best and jolliest and dearest little pal and chum a fellow ever had. Witty-loyal-sweet. You made me believe again in the reality of friendship and love.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them

I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them. - Miss Barry

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more . . . though I know that IS the noblest ambition . . . but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me . . . to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

It was because you looked so happy. Oh, you'll agree with me now that I AM a hateful beast—to hate another woman just because she was happy,—and when her happiness didn't take anything from me! That

she never said anything that would hurt anyone's feelings—which may be a negative talent but is likewise a rare and enviable one.

Oh, I like things to have handles even if they are only geraniums. It makes them seem more like people. How do you know but that it hurts a geranium's feelings just to be called a geranium and nothing else? You wouldn't like to be called nothing but a woman all the time.

I think it would be charitable to believe that he was mistaken about

You've been crying, Aunt Edith," said a troubled Timothy. He got up out of his chair and hugged her. "Just you wait till I grow up and when I'm a man nothing'll ever make you cry.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that "this, too, will pass away.

But trust one man to excuse another.

I always say good night to the things I love, just as I would to people. I think they like it.

Pero me alegro de que hoy no llueva porque será más fácil estar alegre y vencer los contratiempos con un día de sol. Y presiento que tendré un montón de dificultades que superar. Es muy fácil eso de leer sobre las penas de los demás e imaginarse a uno vencer las dificultades heroicamente, pero no es tan sencillo cuando son realidad, ¿no les parece?

There is something in me today that makes just love everybody I see.

You can't reason with prejudice.

I think you can always tell when a house has been loved. But it's been asleep for so long. And lonely. It always hurts me to see a house lonely.

Anne, her zaman kimsenin duygular?n? incitmememiz gerektiÄŸini söyler. Ä°nsan?n duygular?n?n incinmesi çok korkunç bir ÅŸey gibi görünüyor.