Quotes About Empathy

Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Felicity and Ann hunched over their ornaments as if they were fascinating relics from an archaeological dig. I note that their shoulders are trembling, and I realize that they are fighting laughter over my terrible plight. There's friendship for you.

I can't help feeling humiliated for Ithal. He stands at the wall and watches us go, and when we reach the turnoff for the school, he's still there with the mangled flower in his hands, far behind us a small, dying star fading out of our constellation.

You can never really know someone completely. That's why it's the most terrifying thing in the world, really - taking someone on faith, hoping they'll take you on faith too. It's such a precious balance, it's a wonder we do it at all.

Whoever saves a life, it is as if he has saved an entire world.

Miss New Mexico stared, dumbfounded. Stand out? Stand out? I have a freaking tray stuck in my forehead! She broke into fresh sobs. Taylor clapped for attention. Miss New Mexico, let's not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don't even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.

There is no greater power on this earth than story....

Sam! - Sam said hugging himself. - You're welcome. Don't mention it.

I found her. There was blood everywhere. I slipped and fell in it.' 'That's awful,' Ling said when she found her voice again. 'It was awful. I loved those pants.

Sam had a skill that often let him take what he needed. But you couldn't do that with love. It had to be given. Shared.

People will disappoint you. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on.

It has carried shouts of love, and it has dried tears to salt tracks on more faces than it can number.

We're all damaged, somehow.

Memphis's eyes fluttered open. Theta's eyes were wide, and she was crying. 'Did I hurt you?' She laughed through tears. 'You could never hurt me.

You have no idea how much you can come to know about a person when you see inside their dreams

People had to be who they were. The challenge was to love them for it. And to be honest when they'd hurt you. To apologize when you'd hurt them. It seemed pretty simple on the face of it. So why was it always so hard?

Hate is hate, no matter who it's coming from.

So we learned the dance that cripples the human spirit, step by step by step, we who were white and we who were colored, day by day, hour by hour, year by year until the movements were reflexes and made for the rest of our life without thinking.

When people react without knowing the whole story or empathizing with the parties involved, some very bad decisions get made.

How anybody in town could think me a murderer when I couldn't even throw a stray out into the rain, I cannot fathom.

An ordinary home about to be shattered. I'd rather cut off my hand than look into Belinda Horner's eyes and ask her to identify a body I'm certain is her daughter. But this is my job, and I don't have a choice.

The only time to look down on your neighbor is when you're bending over to help them.

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Many neighborhood conflicts have their roots in trivial little insults made by one neighbor, which result in returned insults from the other neighbor. An insult-for-insult relationship develops, and all other avenues for friendship and communication disappear.

All the hurt, fear, and rejection you have ever felt is what the Lord Jesus felt in the Garden of Gethsemane.