Quotes About Empathy

I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.

I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else.

There's only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

I would never blame a human creature for feeling lonely.

Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

He'd developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

Those in pain have no time for the pain they cause.

He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that others have done to you.

How can I have behaved so badly, so cruelly, so stupidly? you will ask. You yourself would never have done such things! But you yourself will never have had to.

Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.

But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subject to the temptation or feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman. It's difficult to resist, believe me. But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

Those who have been in trouble themselves are alert to it in others

She did not believe he was a monster. He was not a monster, to her. Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, off key, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles, he called his dog Liebchen and made it sit up for pieces of raw steak. How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

How dare she show herself to be everything he was so annoyed with her for not being?

Nobody's heart is perfect.

I said maybe I was too sad for the job: didn't they want a more upbeat personality in their girls? But Mordis smiled with his shiny black-ant eyes and said, as if he was patting me: "Ren. Ren. Everyone's too sad for everything.

We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

When a shameful thing is done to you, the shamefulness rubs off on you. You feel dirtied.

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

That way nobody feels exploited." "Wait a minute," says Stan. "Nobody's exploited?" "I said nobody feels exploited," says Budge. "Different thing.

Sorry solves nothing

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.