Quotes About Empathy

It's a hard way to learn, but I think that's how most of us learn about jealousy. It seems like a stupid way for anyone to feel, until someone makes you feel it.

I have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themsleves.

I can see that this hurts you. You should fix it. You can't make it unhappen, but you don't have to carry around what they did to you. Don't give them that power over you.

Her anger was hard for me to bear, but weeping would have been worse." p. 513

She taught me that being open was simply not being closed. And going into another's mind is mostly done by being willing to go outside of your own.

I perceived then that my father had already known these things, but that by asking about them in front of us, he had given Spink the opportunity to share his family's straitened circumstances without making it seem that he sought our pity.

In truth, I believe the Wit is as natural a magic as a man can claim. It is the Wit that lets a flock of birds in flight suddenly wheel as one, or a school of fingerlings hold place together in a swiftly flowing stream. It is also the Wit that sends a mother to her child's bedside just as the babe is awakening. I believe it is at the heart of all wordless communication, and that all humans possess some small aptitude for it, recognized or not.

It is quite one thing to admit a fault to yourself. It is another thing entirely to have a friend not only agree with you, but point out the full depth of the fault.

Some friendships go deeper than madness or common sense

Many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.

were people

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.

Yet when one of you is near, I feel you are woven of the same strand as I, that we are but extensions of a segmented life, and that together we complete one another. I feel a joy in your presence, because I feel my own life wax greater when we are close to one another.

In a softer voice, I added, "And self-pitying tales of woe always bore me

In my opinion, men deny animals have feelings and thoughts for one basic reason: so they won't feel guilty about what they do to them.

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear," Burrich said stubbornly. And, more warmly: "It's a poor teacher who tries to instruct by blows and threats. Imagine taming a horse that way. Or a dog. Even the most knot-headed dog learns better from an open hand than a stick.

Some say 'a dog' or 'a horse' as if every one of them is like every other. I've heard a man call a mare he had owned for seven years 'it' as if he were speaking of a chair. I've never understood that. One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect.

Why hire what you could buy outright? That seemed to be the philosophy here in the slavemart, yet Wintrow wondered how those shopping for slaves could not see themselves in their faces, or recognize one's neighbors. No one else seemed disturbed by it... It seemed that, in the eyes of the buyers, a failure of finances instantly changed a man from a friend or neighbor into merchandise.

Be content with your own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what path they will follow." She frowned up at him. "Even when you see, with absolute clarity, that it is wrong for them? That they hurt themselves?" "Perhaps people have a right to their pain," he hazarded. Reluctantly he added, "Perhaps they even need it.

It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer

Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.

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.

By definition, a 'Sisterchick' is a 'friend who shares the deepest wonders of your heart, loves you like a sister, and gives you a reality check when you're being a brat.