Quotes About Empathy

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. Eldridge Cleaver

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.

It is impossible to explain anything to those who are both angry and terrified.

that the number one predictor for the long-term success ofany relationship is how well the couple is able to handle conflict.

the general rules of reciprocity are not working with the NPD person. The relationship begins to operate more and more on his terms as if these are the only terms.

Although not as exaggerated as the grandiosity of the narcissistically defended child, the codependent child now manifests a measure of grandiosity in her own right—the extraordinary helper.

More shouts of laughter greeted this, and off the girls ran, laughing and talking and forgetting Wanda and her hundred dresses. Forgetting until tomorrow and the next day and the next, when Peggy, seeing her coming to school, would remember and ask her about the hundred dresses. For now Peggy seemed to think a day was lost if she had not had some fun with Wanda, winning the approving laughter of the girls.

Yes, that was the way it had all begun, the game of the hundred dresses. It all happened so suddenly and unexpectedly, with everybody falling right in, that even if you felt uncomfortable as Maddie had there wasn't anything you could do about it. Maddie wagged her head up and down. Yes, she repeated to herself, that was the way it began, that day, that bright blue day.

I am sure none of my boys and girls in Room 13 would purposely and deliberately hurt anyone's feelings because his name happened to be a long, unfamiliar one. I prefer to think that what was said was said in thoughtlessness. I know that all of you feel the way I do, that this is a very unfortunate thing to have happen. Unfortunate and sad, both. And I want you all to think about it.

had to make fun of Wanda. She worked her arithmetic problems absentmindedly. Eight times eight . . . let's see . . . nothing she could do about making fun of Wanda.

If she ever heard anybody picking on someone because they were funny looking or because they had strange names, she'd speak up. Even if it meant losing Peggy's friendship. She had no way of making things right with Wanda, but from now on she would never make anybody else so unhappy again.

I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

Aunt Polly is all stirred up over it. You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?" Mrs. Carew laughed suddenly. (22)

It's funny how dogs and cats know the insides of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

I don't see how you can find anything about this poor-people business to be glad for. Of course we can be glad for ourselves that we aren't poor like them; but whenever I'm thinking how glad I am for that, I get so sorry for them that I CAN'T be glad any longer. Of course we COULD be glad there were poor folks, because we could help them. But if we DON'T help them, where's the glad part of that coming in?

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?