Quotes About Empathy

There must be some compensation for being an onlooker,' said Beatrice. 'The role is not always an enviable one.

For that is how he saw me, she thought, and out of love for him that is how I tried to be.

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

I have been too harsh on women, she thought, because I understand them better than I understand men. I know their watchfulness, their patience, their need to advertise themselves as successful. Their need never to admit to a failure. I know all that because I am one of them.

How can you possibly be an agent of positive change in the world when you are full of bitterness and hatred?

I don't know why it's taken me so long to realise, but now it's so obvious that underneath the invisible barriers and expectations we have constructed and placed on each other, we are all brothers and sisters; we are all just pink flesh and bone.

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie: Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.

Judy Blume: Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.

You Write For Me? OR, You're Right For Me.

All relationships have one law : Never make the one you love feel alone, especially when your there.

Never try to change a person. We all evolve as life goes on. Love people as they are.

People can only love you as much as they love themselves.

Some people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.

If all that I would want to do was to sit and talk to you...would you listen?

Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.

there is no virtue in doing something for someone else when it's something you also want to do. That's merely being helpful, but it's hardly commendable. The real virtue is in doing something you don't want to do, but doing it because someone else wants it.

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

Live, laugh, love. When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell