Quotes about Empathy

The act of rape on an eight-year-old body is a matter of the needle giving because the camel can't. The child gives, because the body can, and the mind of the violator cannot.

Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.

Long after people forget what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel. —Tim Sanders

I could never put my finger on her realness. She was so pretty and so quick that even when she had just awakened, her eyes full of sleep and hair tousled, I thought she looked just like the Virgin Mary. But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding?

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

Try to be a rainbow in someones cloud There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right.

Each of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm. When we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

My tears were not for Bailey or Mother or even myself but for the helplessness of mortals who live on the sufferance of Life. In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be born again, and born with the knowledge of alternatives. Even then?

My tears were not for Bailey or Mother or even myself but for the helplessness of mortals who live on the sufferance of Life.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother." (1986)