Quotes About Empathy

What provokes readers to experience their own profound sense of self?

A work of fiction grips our imaginations because we care, both about the characters in the tale and about ourselves. To put it another way, we are concerned about the outcome of the story because what is happening to the characters could happen to us.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself...

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Humanness is a window thrown against a wall.

To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52)

Whenever anyone uttered a word against gay men or women, Grace was outspoken. "You shouldn't criticize people who are homosexual," she told her friend Prudy Wise. "It can be very destructive, and it is so easy to become mean without realizing it.

She had an understanding about people, and compassion—she didn't talk about it, but you heard how she spoke and saw how she behaved.

The greatest channel to peace" he said, "[involves] talking about problems…. For as long as we have men, we are going to have differences. And it seems to me we can disagree without being disagreeable.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Recent threats targeting Jewish community centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week's shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms.

A human being who has mastered the self cannot be dominated by any other person; to the contrary, there is a strong tendency for others to seek to emulate and follow such a master, because they intuitively recognize the value of self-control.

Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better human being.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

It takes more strength to care deeply enough to give your heart than it does to go into battle, and the victory is far greater.

Words spoken in pain could be far crueler than the speaker really intended. -Bound

The world would be a better place if everyone traveled. ~Miss Clarrie

My way of knowing is by putting myself in the other's place. Forgiveness gave me the method. I see through your eyes.

Like life isn't hard enough, mate. Don't borrow more sorrow.

and one of only a few on the entire station, she'd bonded with

really sorry you lost your sister and brother-in-law. There's never anything adequate to say in sympathy,