Quotes About Empathy

Love us when we are dirty, not when we are clean. Anyone will love us when we're clean.

The truth is that the war helped. The war brought great sorrow and made life very very hard. Much sorrow, many tears. But it had been even harder before the war, because then everyone was alone in his sorrow.

A ?ovek valjda traje dok traje u drugome.

Poštovanje smo dužni samo ponekom. A ljubav svakom ko nas je voleo.

Ništa nas tako ne ujedinjuje kao bol.

Zbog mene ne treba i ne smeš ništa da menjaš u svom životu. To je tvoj jedini život. I nosi ga, sestro, do kraja. Ako sada pokušaš da se iš?upaš iz njega, bi?eš još nesre?nija.

I naružila se zemlja od pogašenih ognjišta. Dve zore nikad na istom bivaku. Kad menjaš ognjište, i narav ti se menja. Kad tebi otimaju, i ti otimaš. Veruj mi, u zlu su svi ljudi zli.

Jednom sam, u o?ajanju, morao da pitam mamu: "Zašto ljudi ne vole one koji im nikakvo zlo ne ?ine?" - "Zato sine, što ti dobri ne li?e na njih ostale", odgovorila mi mama, bez premišljanja. "Pa, ipak, mama, ne?e biti da su svi ljudi zli.", rekao sam prili?no ube?eno. Mama je ?utala i ja sam to ?utanje zapamtio. Oca nisam o tome pitao jer sam se plašio njegovog odgovora.

Imam toliko iskustva da pouzdano znam: u stvaranju I ljubavi tu?a iskustva ne zna?e skoro ništa.

An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

We're friends, I told him, it's an indefinable relationship.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

It's wonderful when you can bring sparkle into people's lives without fading away from your own true color. Keep the hue in you.

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.

Allow yourself a moment of grief when life's misfortunes visit you. However, do not spend your days building a monument in honor of them.

A friend will remind you that assumptions born of malice are better dealt with by gleefully sticking your tongue out.

An angry daughter...is like an angry hen. The more you chase, the harder it is to catch her. You wait, and be patient, and hope that eventually she comes to you.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!

It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.

We can't just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear. And we have to work to dig it out so we can share it with our family, our friends, and our neighbors.

You don't even have to believe in anything to be good to people. You should just know you should be a good human being.

I strengthen the muscles around my heart, but I can't harden it.