Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others.
History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.
I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length.
Critics are only concerned with what affects them. And feeling empathy is a gift not many possess.
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination
There is no real distinction between who can and cannot be a teacher. All that matters is that this person should have knowledge of the subject matter, empath and compassion with others, and, above al...
Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better.Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him w...
Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard...
We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like literary sculptures, at once monumental and yet human. We've applied all of our intelligence, our empat...
I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.
To help others, will be rewarded
Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct
Fear trumps empathy.
A thousand pounds for clothes--when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter!
...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can'tuntil you do understand.
Everyone carries a burden. Only the weight differs.
Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.
If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.