Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

My mother taught me caring and sensitivity towards the feelings of others, animals as well as humans. She gave me much good, practical advice for getting through life.

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

One of women's greatest values is compassion.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

I think that a man should be caring.

The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

She was a genius at listening.