Quotes About Empathy

It takes a lifetime to make a friend, but you can lose one in an hour," she recites. "Life without a friend is life without sun. Life without a friend is death.

This is a novel about sisters...typically sisters are the longest relationship we'll have in our lifetimes. A sister is someone who should stand by you and support you and love you no matter what, and yet it's also your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife and hurt you the most.

How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else ever will. I remember clearly

A friend without faults will never be found

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A woman who helps others helps herself.

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All we can do is take their pain and carry it in our hearts, That's a mother's love... love and pain.

I didn't see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone's life.

But that's the thing about mental illness; there's no such thing as a cookie-cutter diagnosis. We're all crazy in our own special way. Some of us just have it worse than others.

You were never so acutely aware of your own flaws as you were in the presence of your child. Why was that?

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can break your heart.

Even though we can't always have affection for every person we meet, we can always treat every person with kindness.

But mainly, people were so wrapped up in their own inner hurricane that they never saw anything outside the storm of themselves.

When they're small, they're part of you, on you in bed, showering with you, climbing onto your lap, holding on to your leg. Slowly, slowly, they start to move away, and if you love them, if you want them to feel safe and free to explore the world, you have to let them go. Mostly.

He didn't respect or even understand that other people had boundaries and only bullies pushed through them.

She felt rather than saw Bruce frowning.

It was so much simpler to see other people's wrongs and make them pay. It was so much harder to have compassion, to see yourself in others and find forgiveness.

We all make mistakes coming from our place of pain. When we know better, we do better.

No one ever talks about the power and comfort of a true friendship that endures years. The friend who worries about you, is there when you call, brings soup when you're sick, camps out on your couch when you're sad. There aren't many friends like that. If you have one, be grateful. I know I am.

But words are all we have, their essence the only passage into our centers, the only way we can make people feel what we feel

After all, beneath the surface of it, isn't that what we're all looking for? We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood?

My mother always told me that if you're embarrassed by a kindness and don't know what to say, keep it simple. "Thank you.

They just want to be heard. They just want us to listen to their stories. Are