“And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.”— Carl Rogers, stepbystepcounselling.co.uk
“Americans are really good at acute compassion, but pretty bad at chronic empathy. We, without question, haul strangers out of a raging flood, give blood, give food, give shelter. But we are lousy at legislating safe, sustainable communities, at eldercare, at accessible streets and buildings. It is t…”— Sigrid Ellis, twitter.com
“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“When you don’t share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“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.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.”— Stephen Covey, amazon.com
“Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.”— Sai Baba, goodreads.com
“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“Sensitivity isn’t being wimpy. It’s about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.”— Jeff Buckley, amazon.com
“I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I’m much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That’s just the kind of person I am. I’m the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that’s fine with me. I don’t mind at all. Better to be a first-class match…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“There is nothing like peace and compromise. Let us unite with the blessing of this treaty and be one nation. You know full well that denial1 on both sides has thrown us apart and that our country is suffering greatly. Visualise how blessed it could prove to testify to each other’s truth. Come, give…”— Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, amazon.com
“A religion which does not inculcate universal compassion is no religion at all. Similarly, a human being without the faculty of compassion is no human at all.”— Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, amazon.com