One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.

Do everything with your whole heart, or not at all. Don't put up with lies or with people who lie to you. Don't risk hurting people just for the fun of it. And lastly, your best foot shouldn't be put...

You were spying on me? I repeated, this time my tone was stern. Nonsense! I was making sure you were safe. He answered, fluttering his wings and landing in front of me. That's what friends do.

People are seen through the stained glass window of our imagination. { "The hidden sides of his character" }

Teach use quality through empathy

Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did... You stay in, we'll laugh and drink fruit liqueur and we'll drive away your depression in a flash. I'll sing...

Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others - they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.

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

We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn't make them any less painful.

I spend half my time comforting the afflicted, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

Let nothing human be foreign to me

The inspector had interviewed boys before, boys from the poorest parts of town. He had the habit of not specifying "mam" or "dad" or even "parents." They were things he knew not every child possessed...

The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.

A novel is a bridge from one heart to another. - Anon

We are born with the innate capacity to express empathy. Experiencing our own cuts and bruises, encountering our own difficulties and disappointments, expands our cognitive world and rouses the...

We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.

Whenever you hurt someone, you bring torment into your own life.

Right. So what I don't understand is why everyone is mad at me, instead of realizing that I am the one who has been wronged here. Not a single person has come up to me and said, "I'm really sorry this...

"I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see."

What selfish soul would ask another to live this way.

If you have never walked a mile in someone's shoes, do not mock the sores on his feet.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Those of us with Big Hearts are like Big Banks, we are too Big to fail!

Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper...

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.

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

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