Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most...

We are out sisters’ keepers.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they’ve done.

If the road is not patchy, rough and on a hilly terrain, then the journey is not often worth undertaking as all destinations are already enough crowded

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice...

When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive.

If you don’t love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.

I had a dream about you. It was just you and me at the table, and there were two pieces of apple pie available. You thought it worked out perfectly, but I thought it was...

Traveling on, the shaft of his light reached now a great, dully shining oblong, and he stopped, surprised. Then, through the glass sides, he saw bright shapes of fish wheel in schools down the opaque...

How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others.

I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what...

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.

If you look into someone’s face long enough, eventually you’re going to feel that you’re looking at yourself.

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.

When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?

Liberty does not mean freedom to do anything;but freedom to do right thing.

The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?

No one can hurt you without teaching a life’s lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it.

There is no small act of kindness.Every compassionate act makes large the world.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call “terrorism,” I’m confident they have been expressing their pain in many different ways for thirty years or more. Instead of our empathically receiving...

There is no key to open the heart of another – except curiosity.

What people don’t understand about depression is how much it hurts. It’s like your brain is convinced that it’s dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that’s...

I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that’s not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from...

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

[A] great novel will allow you to transcend the social, racial and political limitations imposed by the vicissitudes of life and to find a deep fraternity based on empathy.

Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at that moment, hearing not simply his words, but him, and when I let him know that I...

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one’s joy with others who do...

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.

It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.

Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.

I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise’s] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity inspired in her a pity which increased in direct ratio to the distance separating the sufferers from herself.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

My mother always tells me that anyone who gets enjoyment from other people’s misery will eventually get the greatest discomfort from his or her own miseries.

The news can be poison to your soul, don’t let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged.

Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength- Drizzt Do’Urden

When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow ourselves to open up to our own nourishment that we are free to...

If you’re treating people poorly then you’re not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted.

They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and soften the hardened.

Patience, Empathy, Attitude, Character and Enthusiasm are the wisdom pieces that collectively make the PEACE in mind largely.

I think people believe empathy to be compassion, that compassion is an inner sense (a sense of the soul). But empathy is a sense, while compassion isn’t a sense. Empathy is an affinity, a communion,...

Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you’d...

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very...