Quotes About Empathy

I will always be haunted by what I did too... and so we sat there. Two haunted women.

You can't get over things you did to other people as easily as the things they did to you.

You can't get over things you do to other people as easily as you get over things they do to you.

from Mooshum to Sonja, back and forth. They wouldn't look at each other. I'm gonna ask you to leave in a nice way, Joe.

I found I could not read just any book. It had gotten so I could see through books – the little ruses, the hooks, the setup in the beginning, the looming weight of a tragic ending, the way at the last page the author could whisk out the carpet of sorrow and restore a favorite character. I needed the writing to have a certain mineral density. It had to feel naturally meant, but not cynically contrived. I grew to dislike manipulations.

She would always say that people who try to control people and change people's habits are the ones that make all the trouble. If you don't like somebody, walk away, she said, but don't try and make them like you. ---Harriet, on what Ole Golly says

Always say exactly what you feel. People are hurt more by misunderstanding than anything else.

I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free.

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who "did all that stuff to you" were just as frightened and scared as you are.

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

La jeunesse vraie, la seule, c'est d'aimer tout le monde sans distinction, cela seulement est vrai, cela seulement est jeune et nouveau.

Si les gens sont si méchants, c'est peut-être seulement parce qu'ils souffrent, mais le temps est long qui sépare le moment où ils ont cessé de souffrir de celui où ils deviennent un peu meilleurs.

When, grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who've been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself. As

Rolul ling?ului admirator e aproape singurul în care oamenii se îndur? unii pe alÅ£ii cu oarecare pl?cere.

You need a heart and a certain amount of knowledge to go further than other people.

De mensen zitten barstensvol medelijden voor invaliden en blinden, je kunt gerust zeggen dat ze een hele voorraad liefde achter de hand hebben. Dat had ik al heel vaak gemerkt. 't Wemelt van dat soort liefde. Je kunt niet het tegendeel beweren. 't Is alleen zo jammer dat de mensen toch zo honds blijven, met zoveel liefde in voorraad. Het komt er niet uit, dat is het. Het zit binnenin en het blijft binnenin, ze hebben er niets aan. Ze gaan kapot aan die liefde, binnenin.

S'ils se mettent à penser à vous, c'est à votre torture qu'ils pensent qu'ils songent aussitôt les autres, et rien qu'à ça.

When, grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who've been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself.

Always look kindly on the old, Bairbre . . . Because they have loved people so much longer than you have, they have so very much more to lose . . .

She couldn't make someone—Jonathan—understand what she was going through if he wasn't ready to understand.

How couldn't he understand what happened, how death could make one person take to bed and another person sit on a rock

I used to escape into books. I'd hear my father yelling, and I'd open my book and dive in. I don't know what I would have done without reading.

People that sick simply can't love. They don't have it in them.

But now I know—the best of us waste our time repenting, forgiving everyone but ourselves.