Quotes About Empathy

The vast majority of kids I've worked with over the years had already endured more than their fair share of consequences. If all those consequences were going to work, they would have worked a long time ago.

He spoke gently, laughed often, and never exercised his wit at the expense of others.

We are like an only child who in growing up realizes that the world does not revolve only around himself, as he thought when little," Rovelli writes. "Mirrored by others, and by other things, we learn who we are.

You can't worry about the rest of the world, never mind the rest of the universe. All you can do is look to your left and your right and try to be kind to whoever is there.

And that's what it's about, isn't it? Love? Love's about making it last, making it stick, making it count - even when it hurts, when times are hard, when people change, when life changes them. If you love someone, then you have to want to love them, whoever they are.

Books are a bit like time travel, aren't they? They can pick you up out of your life and put you in someone else's? It's just a shame that at some point you always have to come back.

It seems to me that you can't decide to like a person based on their personal circumstances. It seems to me that sometimes you can like a person because of who they are, despite their personal circumstances.

They can pick you up out of your life and put you in someone else's? It's just a shame that at some point you always have to come back.

Be kind to people, just be kind. You never know what other people are going through, so whenever you can, however you can, be kind. Be true to yourself. When I say that, I mean just live life the best way that you can, honestly, decently. You won't be perfect. You'll make mistakes, maybe hurt people, and people will hurt you. But that's okay as long as you can know that everything you did, you did with the right intentions.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

To think of myself as a body, to be conscious of myself as a body, is to be conscious of other people's consciousness.

We're talking about a reality in which people enter into the experience, the aspiration, the sense of self, of others. And

The crimes you paid for as a parent: excruciating, to be blamed for something you'd never dreamt of doing, or huring someone you'd give your heart's blood to...One thing you learned as a parent was humility.

You can't love anyone when your heart is filled with hate.

The people you love and the people who love you, no matter how piss-poor a job they do of showing it, are all you have in this life.

don't care what he did or where he's been. It's made him who he is, and I like that.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.

A first conclusion was that the actions seemed much less evil—less wrong—to the perpetrators than to the victims.

We've seen parents successfully use a variant of this approach when an infant cries to be fed. Instead of immediately feeding the crying child, the mother lets the child know that the signal has been received but then waits for her or him to quiet down before offering the breast or the bottle. Again, it's hard to ignore the cries at first, and we realize that to some parents it sounds too cruel to even try. But

Romantic jealousy is another experience in which people become irrationally oversensitive because of implicit blows to their pride.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

It is worthwhile studying other peoples, because every understanding of another culture is an experiment with our own.

Y aquellas alas de mariposa azul de qué nos sirven? preguntarán los que nacieron sin alas.