Quotes About Empathy

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

I spent my life learning to feel less.

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.

Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms.

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.

If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.

... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for.

I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the world. That's why I write about the things I write about.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

I don't know what you're feeling, I won't even pretend

The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.