Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is...

I truly believe that people do the best they can.

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

"Was Philip Dexter upset?" "He's telephoned the office every day." She was pleased about that. "Who else was upset?" "Everybody. Roosevelt ordered an hour of silence while you were on the table. Like...

The internet can be many things, of course. Too often it's a cesspool of distraction, a place we indulge in the modern sport of snark and schadenfreude, building the case for our own bigotries, where...

.. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you. ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.

Don't blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before.

That's why they call it a heartbreak. Because you really feel like your heart is breaking. It's not just an emotional pain, it's a physical pain too.

I share my happiness and sorrow Because I know for once there will be no tomorrow If I wish to live in your memories I too have to be there to share your worries Speak up to your friend, am just a...

Hate not a man for his tardiness for the only thing that is on time is time itself.

Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles,...

Suicide is not a choice, it is what is left when everything else fails.

You might pass by those who're stuck in the bottleneck while you are swimming in your whiskey, be kind!

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?

May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own.

To fix hearts one must know one's own.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.

When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone's life.

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.

Ifemelu wanted, suddenly and desperately, to be from the country of people who gave and not those who received, to be one of those who had and could therefore bask in the grace of having given, to be...

Mikhail replayed the recent events in his mind for her. Raven inhaled, feeling as if someone had hit her square in the stomach. , he assured.

You're not a monster. You're a mirror.

"You," she said, "are the ugliest man I ever saw." Sadly, the man answered, "Perhaps so, but I can't help that." "No," the woman allowed, "but you might stay at home."

Jimmy looked back over at his wife, and Celeste could feel the tenderest of aches in the look. She could feel another teardrop piece of Jimmy's heart detach and free - fall down the inside of his...

The biology of empathy allows us to comprehend our connection to each other, to other living things, and to the physical world that supports life.

"Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?" asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. "The nerve!"