“The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“I don’t think I do understand people very well. I only know whether I like — or dislike — them.”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.”— Anna Funder, amazon.com
“Good people are like candles; they burn themselves up to give others light.”— Turkish Proverb, amazon.com
“I sympathise with everybody, damn it, and see why they are the way they are.”— Kurt Vonnegut, 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
“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”— Orson Scott Card, 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
“I don’t care that they stole my idea… I care that they don’t have any of their own.”— Nikola Tesla, goodreads.com
“You didn’t need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.”— Jeannette Walls, amazon.com
“I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”— Rumi, goodreads.com
“I love you, that means I’m not just here for the pretty parts. I’m here no matter what.”— Claudia Gray, amazon.com
“I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.”— Federico García Lorca, blogs.britannica.com
“If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other more gently, with more love, tolerance and care.”— Marvin J. Ashton, goodreads.com
“Old souls know that there’s always more than one way to look at something, and they can put themselves in someone else’s shoes.”— Jen Hubley Luckwaldt, rodalesorganiclife.com
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of…”— Henri J.M. Nouwen, amazon.com
“That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com