Quotes about Empathy

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces — and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper — love her, love her, love her!

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.