Quotes About Empathy

Just because you don't care about anyone doesn't mean everyone else is like that too!

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

Musicians understand each other through means other than speaking.

Nat King Cole - I listen to him a lot.

What makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fucked up, their communication is fucked up.

you know: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF HUGS IS THE ENTIRE REASON I EVER ENGAGE IN ANY NARRATIVE, FICTIONAL OR OTHERWISE??

Wait... maybe the question isn't "How do I beat him?" Maybe the question in "Dude, why are we even fighting in the first place?

Wait... maybe the question isn't "How do I beat him?" Maybe the question is "Dude, why are we even fighting in the first place?

Forget about homework and you get in trouble with your teacher. Forget about taxes and you get in trouble with your government...But forget about hate and you know what happens? You just don't hate someone anymore.

The weak: Most people turn their backs on the weak, but those are the people that need the most help, if your going to turn your backs on some one it should be those who are evil.

You don't harm what you love, you harm what you don't love, what you don't respect.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

The essence of love is to give continually, without expecting anything in return.

To give means to think, every single day, about what you can do to make people happy.

I have a whole set of problem-solving behaviors and I am anxious to use them, in much the same way that I would stand up on the train to give my seat to someone who seems to need it more than I do: here is something I can address, and I do, and all is well.

It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Bit looks up at me with tears in her eyes. "Please don't hate me." "Why would I hate you?" I ask, frowning with confusion. "Because I've been lying to you," Bit says, and her already tortured expression darkens even more. "About

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.

I feel her tears on my face. They feel the same as mine.

And sometimes it is better to solemnly retreat into solitude than to be gravely misunderstood.

Doesn't take much skill to stay married. Just some patience and the common sense to know when to shut up and listen.