Quotes About Empathy

Me di cuenta que su voz estaba hecha de hebras humanas, que su boca tenía dientes y una lengua que se trababa y destrababa al hablar, y que sus ojos eran como todos los ojos de la gente que vive sobre la tierra.

Tendré que oírlo, hasta que se le muera su voz.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about 7 out of five hundred people.

People didn't get nice by accident, did they? They had parents who were nice. Nice to their kids, nice to others.

People didn't get nice by accident, did they? They had parents who were nice. Nice to their kids, nice to others. His parents . . . well, they didn't understand the concept of "nice.

With Dan you have to listen to his underneath, you know? Not so much what he says.

No one is keeping a score. We're all just trying to do the right thing.

Roan had taught him not to care what anyone thought, but to regard everyone's feelings.

Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart.

not an experience shared by most potential readers—I realized that, if I did it well, some of those readers could have that same experience of identification that I valued so much. Moments in my life might resonate with moments in theirs. They might even step right outside their familiar histories and share mine for a while.

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. It may be that one wants to, or does, but it may also be that despite one's best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by the scent, be the feel, by the prospect of the touch, by the memory of the feel.

A saint is a human being who neither wants nor needs to hurt you.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.

For himself Ian would have calmly and unhesitatingly told society to go to hell, but they'd already put Elizabeth through hell, and he wanted somehow to make it right for her again.

She remebered the angry hurt she had felt because his mother had abandoned him as a young boy,and she cried even harder.His mother should have drowned him!

Bit ljubavi u tome je da se cijeli predaš i da ništa ne uskra?uješ, Ljubav je zna?ila da svoju sre?u povjeravaš nekomu drugomu i zauzvrat snosiš odgovornost za sre?u te osobe.

I think that if you have a talent for acting, it is the talent for listening." — Morgan Freeman

Understand that you're sensitive." Miri was proud for coming up with such a good word. "Is that like saying I'm dramatic, or crazy?" Miri was careful now. "Sensitive is better than dramatic, and it's definitely not as bad as crazy.

But I have discovered that if you love someone the way I love Mew, you learn to overlook the disgusting things.

And even more, I'm going to see to it that he's happy!

It's funny how when you try to help somebody else feel better you wind up feeling better yourself.

Margo would never voluntarily live with such an angry, critical person. Never. But when it was your own child you had no choice. So she kept on trying, kept hoping for the best, kept waiting for the sweetness to come back.

What kind of family were they? she wondered. What kind of family isn't able to comfort one another?