Quotes About Empathy

Depois daquilo comecei a desejar esclarecer as coisas com o Bobo. Como um dente doloroso, remoí uma e outra vez o que lhe queria dizer.

A girl did not need to hit to hurt someone.

It's all my fault,' I confessed to her. 'Oh, Fitz, always you are …' She bit back whatever it was she had started to say. More gently she added, 'No one blames you.' 'I blame me.' 'Of course you do,' she said, as if I were a child insisting the moon was a cheese.

When had it become so ingrained in her to apologize whenever she wanted something for herself?

I need a friend, and I have none to whom I can admit my weakness, my fear, my errors.

I've been the reader sending that letter or small gift to a writer I've never met. I sent them because I wanted that writer to know that I'd met their characters. Their characters had become my friends. I hadn't read a story; I'd shared a life.

Children are not born with memories of who insulted their mother or slew their grandfather or stole their land. Those hates are bequeathed to them, taught them, breathed into them. If adults didn't tell children of their hereditary hates, perhaps we would do better.

I don't understand," I said faintly. "You don't have to," he replied comfortingly. "Understanding how or why is very seldom as useful as understanding that things are.

Could it be that simple? Simply pretend we had never quarreled; just go back to treating each other as we had before?

Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity.

Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.

Not every problem in the world belongs to you, Tom Badgerlock. Let others have their share.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all." And

Too late to apologize. I have already forgiven you

The ones who chose to live free of inconvenience by tolerating the agony and degradation of others?

A ruler must be of all his people, for one can only rule what one knows.

I do not disparage any man's life. Consider my own, and tell me what height I look down from.

If I had met you for the first time tonight, I would have despised you. You put me in mind of Regal." "Did I? Well, perhaps that reflect my belief that there is something to be learned from everyone that we meet.

They were petty and selfish." "They were miserable and hungry and helpless. I don't think I've ever met anyone who was miserable, hungry and helpless who was not also petty and selfish. The situation brings out the worst in everyone.

well. It was as if he himself were embodied afresh in this lad. He could protect this boy as he had not been protected himself. He had the power to stave off the destructive forces that had once torn his own life apart. After all, they were not that different. The ship had said so. To protect him would be like saving himself.

Most of being a woman hurts.

In the space of a sundown, you show me the wide world from a horse's back, and the soul of the world within my own walls.

She loved to talk. All I need do was provide the silence.

No, he has never struck me. But there are many ways for a man to be hard-handed with a woman that do not involve striking her.