Quotes About Empathy

I do want people to feel sorry for me. I do. And then I don't. I do. And then I don't.

You have a life stretching out in front of you with a million possibilities," Gat says. "It—it grates on me when you ask for sympathy, that's all." Gat, my Gat. He is right. He is.

Here is something I love about Gat: he is so enthusiastic, so relentlessly interested in the world, that he has trouble imagining the possibility that other people will be bored by what he's saying. Even when they tell him outright. But also, he doesn't like to let us off easy. He wants to make us think - even when we don't feel like thinking.

One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. Like he was my particular person...I am not talking about fate. I don't believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural. I just mean we understood each other. All the way.

I whisper how I love them into their soft doggy ears.

I like the idea of a motto," she goes on. "I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times." "Like what?" asks Gat. Mirren pauses. Then she says: "Be a little kinder than you have to." We are all silenced by that. It seems impossible to argue with.

Gat almost always saw, though. When blood dripped bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind He wrapped my wrists in soft white gauze and asked me ques tions about what had happened. He asked about Dad and about Gran as if talking about something could make it better. As if wounds needed attention.

Always be a little nicer than you have to be

You're such an ass, Gat," says Johnny kindly.

Be a little kinder than you have to." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

Here is something I love about Gat: he is so enthusiastic, so relentlessly interested in the world, that he has trouble imagining the possibility that other people will be bored by what he's saying.

He is right. I do want people to feel sorry for me. I do. And then I don't. I do. And then I don't.

I am not talking about fate. I don't believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural. I just mean we understood each other. All the way.

It was important, she said; it was kind; it was best. Don't cause distress, she said. Don't remind people of a loss. "Do you understand, Cady? Silence is a protective coating over pain.

Be sad. Be sorry. But don't shoulder it." -We Were Liars

I like the idea of a motto,' she goes on. 'I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times.' 'Like what?' asks Gat. Mirren pauses. Then she says, 'be a little kinder than you have to.

Be a little kinder - Mirren

Can I hold your hand?" he asked. "The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to." "I'm here.

It's okay,' I say to Johnny. 'You're not feeble. You merely had a suboptimal moment. I'm sure you'll be optimal from now on.

Be a little kinder than you have to

Be sad, be sorry - but don't shoulder it.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.