#empathy quotes

[varnikareads]

"Sympathy's easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck."

— Dennis Lehane

[selfhealingmoments]

[wordsofwisdomandsoul]

[philosophybits]

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

[todayontumblr]

Monday, November 13.

World Kindness Day.

Well, would you look at that. This is no mere Monday, November 13, 2023. Nay, this is Monday, November 13, 2023: World Kindness Day. So if you've been quietly wondering if there would ever be the perfect day to do something kind, or find yourself, as if in a wholesome montage, looking to turn over a new leaf, then hey presto. Looks like today is your lucky day.

So what are you waiting for? Get out there, smell the flowers. Smile at an old person. Check in on someone that needs it. Volunteer at an owl sanctuary. Knit something warm and scrummy for a beloved. Say something kind to a stranger. Do some shopping for a neighbor in need. You know the drill.

Keep it kind—and keep it quiet. Love and kindness, Tumblr x

[juan-francisco-palencia]

The Same Forever.

Yesterday a girl asked me what friendship means to me. I replied. "A true honest and selfless friendship is like finding a star that shines and twinkles with another in duet."

—  Juan Francisco Palencia.

[mecachrome]

Alex Albon for High Performance

It was this weird thing, because — for example with Yuki, I wanted to take his seat! He was a potential candidate that I could replace. And I remember having that chat with Helmut Marko, and he told me at the time, "You need to driver-coach this guy." And I was like, "I'm not going to. That's a potential seat." And he said, "No, he's already signed. He's guaranteed." So I was like (throws hands), "Okay, fine. Then I'll help him."

[positivelypresent]

Everything is connected. 💞

[em-xzm]

Matts Colombia trip, basicly

[evadneares]

"I'm sorry. I killed a spider.

I trapped him under a cup

And meant to slip some paper under

Take it outside and shake him off,

Free him.

But I forgot,

got distracted.

And when I saw the cup days later,

I realised what I had done.

I left it there for a month.

I didn't want to see him balled, warped little carcass,

The consequences of my distraction,

My lazinezz.

I don't kill bugs

it makes me feel guilty.

Just because I'm bigger doesn't mean I should get the final

Say, on a tiny life.

And when I forced myself to lift the cup after a month

I expected to see him curled, dead on the counter,

But there was nothing there.

So I turned it over;

And saw a ghostly silver web woven in the lip of the cup.

And the spider, resting, dead on top of it.

I sat and cried on the kitchen floor.

In his last moments,

He tried to make a home

Of the darkness I gave him.

@/cosima.333 on tiktok, The Spider Poem" (thank you for finding the author @kaatiba)

[heartofmuse]

I am afraid I cannot be an undying light when I have seen so much darkness. I know the horrors of the world and pain that shatters the soul, but I can sit in the darkness with you until daylight breaks in your soul. I can share the silence and the void, and hold your hand through it all. Sometimes hope is not brewed in the light but in the most absolute darkness, and sometimes all it takes is the knowledge that someone cares and that you are not alone.

e.v.e.

[birdhism]

[pastel-hazey-dreams]

[life-spire]

[non-conventionnel]

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend”

― Albert Camus

[thirdity]

Life is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it.

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring