What are some examples of empathy and loving-kindness in literature that brings you to tears?

What are some examples of empathy and loving-kindness in literature that brings you to tears?

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Read "A Painful Case" by James Joyce. It's kind of a lack of empathy first and then shift into overwhelming empathy tinged with melancholy.

I just want to dedicate my life to living simply and spending all my time to loving and helping others around me. Careers for this feel?

>tfw high empathy egoist
books for this feel?

A Tale of Two Cities

guys pls give advice

when I see someone genuinely smile, my heart is moved.
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Then Jesus said, “There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.’ So he divided his property between them. A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute living. When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs. He would gladly have filled himself with the pods that the pigs were eating; and no one gave him anything. But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger! I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.”’ So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him. Then the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly, bring out a robe—the best one—and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate.

“Now his elder son was in the field; and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing. He called one of the slaves and asked what was going on. He replied, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has got him back safe and sound.’ Then he became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and began to plead with him. But he answered his father, ‘Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command; yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’ Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.’”

a noble pursuit. But what do you mean help? I believe helping people is the highest form of purpose one can have. You can only help someone so much.

But, have you thought about teaching? Helping the younger generations navigate this world we live in is something i imagine to be greatly gratifying.

I can't teach, I have a speech impediment that prevents me from communicating my thoughts to others well. There's a disconnect between mind and mouth. But I don't really know what I mean by "help". I just know that I've felt lost since highschool, having no clue of what to do with my life, and having no desire for any field I could see in front of me. All I wanted was to help people in some manner. I went to college and am finishing a bachelors in Economics, and while it's decently interesting in a general sense, I really feel no passion for it and still want to just help people. I'm at a point now where I'm realizing how miserable and lost I am, how unaligned my life is to my soul, and that I need to actually do something about it. But I'm not very intelligent, I don't have good future planning skills like others do, and I don't know how to set forward an actionable goal. I don't know what I want to do. But money isn't something I care for. I'd be fine with going around and simply cleaning up a community in some way. I don't even know what I mean by that. Like, just scrubbing the floors or something. Shining people's shoes. Giving people food on their plate. I don't know. Should I join a Buddhist monastery? Or another one of some kind? I just want a simple, peaceful, unstressful, barely-renumerated (money wise) occupation that allows me to directly help people around me without any sort of expectation from them in return.

Can you pls help me? I really don't know how to navigate this territory, or have others I can talk to about it. I'm just lost in life...