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Quotes About Empathy

There are many gifts a friend brings to a woman's life. History. Empathy. Honesty. Lucky was the woman who kept a childhood friend because that friend remembered what you looked like, who you were, and your people.
~ Adriana Trigiani
What you love, I love. What worries you, worries me. What you dream of, I will try and make come true.
~ Adriana Trigiani
If we're going to be friends, I want to be useful to you. You have to know what makes a person sad to figure out how to make them happy." "What
~ Adriana Trigiani
There are many gifts a friend brings to a woman's life. History. Empathy. Honesty. Lucky was the woman who kept a childhood friend because that friend remembered what you looked like, who you were, and your people. Lucky was the woman who had a friend from the age of ten, when girls were brave, gutsy, and full
~ Adriana Trigiani
When you see an old lady who's on the wrong side of a good mood, now you know why. She has a past that you can't understand because you didn't live it. As she ages, her feet hurt, her back aches, her knees click, she cooks, she cleans, she worries, she waits, and then she gets sick and dies. Be kind, Anina. Someday you'll be the old lady.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Maybe you shouldn't blame anyone, but accept that this is your sister's story, and the ending belongs to her.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Look out for yourself. A man who cares about your feelings, roots for your limitless future, and plans to guard your dreams as his own is a person that will make a good life partner.
~ Adriana Trigiani
The Lord does not simply wipe out their sorrow. He respects it; indeed, he welcomes it.
~ Adrienne von Speyr
I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.
~ Aeschylus
Let there be less suffering . . . give us the sense to live on what we need.
~ Aeschylus
I put men first in pity, then found there was none left for me.
~ Aeschylus
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
~ Aeschylus
Man shall learn from man's lot.
~ Aeschylus
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
~ Aesop
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
~ Aesop
Every man carries Two Bags about with him, one in front and one behind, and both are packed full of faults. The Bag in front contains his neighbours' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.
~ Aesop
Better no rule than cruel rule.
~ Aesop
No act of kindness is ever wasted.
~ Aesop
The Boys and the Frogs SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.
~ Aesop
No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.
~ Aesop
Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness.
~ Aesop
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
~ Aesop
The Oxen and the Axle-Trees A HEAVY WAGON was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out. Those who suffer most cry out the least.
~ Aesop
Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.
~ Aesop