Quotes About Empathy

I have been her kind.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Don't worry...it happens to lots of guys.

I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

I think if you'll look around, my boy,' he said gently, 'you'll find that no one is quite right. But we all do the best we can.

Jack hesitated still, and Hazel wanted to say something comforting, give him some bright plastic flowers of words, but Jack would see them for what they were. Jack knew how to see things.

He remembered that part like you'd remember a story someone told to you once, like you might nod in sympathy but it wasn't like it happened to you.

There are ways to do things, ways to act with people, and I do not understand them. I cannot understand what people mean when they talk. I do not do things right. I do not feel things right. I do not see things right. I am not...I'm not made of the same thing as everyone else.' The baker took in a deep breath. 'I think if you'll look around, my boy,' he said gently, 'you'll find that no one is quite right. But we all do the best we can.

He's gone now. He did something terrible, but...he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad.

Hazel shrugged. She heard Bobby's voice in her head and wondered why it was she who was not allowed to hurt anyone.

You see," the lord explained, "everyone else has them. You wouldn't want your child to be the only one who had flaws. What would it be like for them?

It occurred to her that Mikaela was being nice to her. She did not know how to react, for when your heart has been poisoned and someone picks a dandelion for you -- because it is bright and yellow and you seem like you could use something like that -- all you can do is contemplate the funny ways of weeds.

So, if someone's changed overnight -- by witch curse or poison apple or were-turtle -- you have to show them what's good. You show them love. That works a surprising amount of the time. And if that doesn't save them, they're not worth saving.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

listen without judgment.

ONE WHO HAS been chosen for friendship by an animal is a lucky person indeed.

Weet je... misschien... nee, niet misschien, ik weet het wel heel zeker: een mens redt het alleen maar als er een andere mens is die van hem houdt.