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.

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.

[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.

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...

Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of empathy could be telepathically shared with humanity,one soul after another, until every soul...

Caring means cultivating the skills of an active listener. That is easier said than done, as an anecdote about the extraordinary social skills of British politicianBenjamin Disraeli and his rival William Gladstone illustrates … The...

I don’t know if what I’m seeing are worms, or where they come from, or what they might be if they’re not worms, or whether I want them to be worms or not, or what...

Being heartbroken doesn’t mean you stop feeling. Just the opposite — it means you feel it all more. With your heart in fragments, every sensation is sharper, every emotion more acute. Your feelings are enhanced,...

I had a dream that I was in someone else’s shoes for once…they were the wrong size.

Well, we know their staff, we have empathy for what they’re going through, what they’ve gone through all season.

One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier...

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

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...

An imaginary circle of empathy is drawn by each person. It circumscribes the person at some distance, and corresponds to those things in the world that deserve empathy. I like the term “empathy” because it...

An empath is capable of taking on the grief of another in order to lessen their suffering. In order to not be consumed with pain, an empath should have an outlet for that pain lest...

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How...

Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.

People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else’s.

The description of Huck’s father grabbed my full attention, and I glanced up at the book in my teacher’s hand as if to double check. My eyes bulged reflexively. Huck’s father was an abusive drunk...

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects...

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

You’re going to come across some truly gifted people in your lifetime that seem to know all the answers. However, they lost their personal relationship with God, along the way. Love them anyways, and do...

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him… The land of tears is so mysterious.

It’s puzzling, given his immediate response during 9/11, that he did not feel a greater sense of empathy toward the folks that were experiencing this enormous disaster, … This Week.

anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

People mean well; they just aren’t here enough to get what we are dealing with or what home means to my mother. Everyone thinks they know what should be done, and their suggestions make me...

Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person’s time, because losing time is losing a part of your life.

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in the heart our own.

Understanding people’s difficulties and—just as crucial—helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.

But when he’s cut, I bleed.