Empathies Quotes & Sayings

Wind waves on the lake break hard against the sharp rocks, but wash gently on sandy shores. — Tom Gillaspy

We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life ... We discovered the color of each other's eyes. — Jerry Spinelli

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it. — Alexi Giannoulias

Why do we spend so much of our lives making blameless people unhappy? — Julian Fellowes

It was wonderful to see, wonderful to be in the middle of: we mud frogs awakening all around. We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life ... It was a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather than against. For ourselves. For the dormant mud frogs we had been for so long. — Jerry Spinelli

3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart. — Ramana Maharshi

For the young, food is from Venus; farming is from Mars — Richard Louv

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go. — Neil Peart

Memories are nice, but dreams are better. — John Anthony Miller

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse. — Igor Stravinsky

I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there. — Mary Lynn Rajskub

It seemed that people could walk through life without causing a ripple, leading ordinary and uneventful lives. It was only after they'd been murdered that people took notice of them. — Joanne Fluke

Nobody likes me!"
"I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't ... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that I was lowering my standards! You wouldn't want me to do that, would you? Be reasonable! I have standards that I have set up for liking people, and you just don't meet those standards! It wouldn't be reasonable for me to like you!"
"I hate myself for being so unreasonable! — Charles M. Schulz

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies. — Rebecca Solnit

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work. — Jessica Lange