Berkeley Breathed Quotes

I think we sort of are all fans of love really, if you're not then you're too cynical aren't you?

I think I'm definitely a romantic at heart.

It's an emotional game.

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

I like to touch people's hearts.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things.

There are those who open their hearts to others...who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make all the difference in our lives.

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.

Youth is the time when hearts are large.

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

I'm not that big, physically. I'm just big where it counts - I got a big heart!

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.

Harden our hearts. To the innocents in the womb and we have hardened our hearts. To the need for compassion and mercy and. Fellow feeling. And charity. And decency in this world.

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.