Quotes about Empathy
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Help more than is needed.Care more than is required.Give more than is expected.Love more than is anticipated.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
To keep your mind positive, refuse to criticize, complain about, or condemn other people for anything.
— Brian Tracy
Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.
— Camron Wright
he said, he didn't know what to do. He couldn't move forward. He thought, they should move on. He started crying. Not for himdelf, for her. He'd rescued her from her lousy life, and now he was throwing her back. He felt like a shit for doing it, for things having to be that way, for not being able to gove her what she wanted. The last thing he wanted was to hurt her. The only part that wasn't in the manual, was her response: She started to laugh. Oh, give me a break, she said.
— Candace Bushnell
Jos itse tekee jonkin päätöksen, eihän sen jälkeen voi suuttua siitä että toinen hyväksyy sen
— Candace Bushnell
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
— Carl Sagan
If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that; it becomes stale, soon learned only by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.
— Carl Sagan
Some people might kill it." "It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness." He continued to carry both twig and larva.
— Carl Sagan
If the enemy can think and feel, you might hesitate to kill them. And killing is very important. Better to see them as monsters.
— Carl Sagan
Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
— Teresa of Avila
You can't just check out and think it will all be over. It won't be over for anyone who loves you. You'll only leave them to run after the pieces that scatter in the angry wind. You'll leave them desperately trying to solve the problems you wouldn't . . . all while plugging their own wounds. Even if you're like me, single without children, you could impact generations. Is quick relief worth it?
— Terri Blackstock