Charles Dickens Quotes

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a little brotherhood.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Clevelanders care about underdogs, partly because we are, partly because we have empathy, and we're - we have faith in our God and faith in humanity, and that makes us support the underdog.

Empathy, humanity and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.

And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

Haiti is an amazing country. Even though the people there have so little, their attitudes resonate a crazy amount of love and joy. It is truly inspiring to see that. My love for the country starts with them.

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

I'm tough, but I have a heart.

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

One of the things that I try to do when I have a tough time with anything - whatever it may be - is just look at someone else's situation. Here in Staten Island, look, I have people that have children that haven't been back in their home for 18 months after Sandy. They lost every worldly possession.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.