Quotes About Empathy

Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.

A lot of times naysayers are just people that have not taken the time yet.

I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.

Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.

In my world there's no room for hate or discrimination in the White House. I will be an outspoken voice against that every time.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time.

It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?" Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

So we gave the afternoon some sanity after all and I wonder, Uncle Andrew, is life sane, as we tried to make it? Or is it insanity, as it was yesterday on the Gerard plantation? And why don't more people try to make it sane? Or if it is full of sanity for them, why do they try to rip that sanity to pieces and impose their form of insanity? Can you help me understand?

He looked up at her. Something passed between them. And I saw that he answered to her, too. But that he didn't answer to her authority, like the governor's, or her shrillness, like Aunt Hannah's, but to her gentleness.

When you learn about someone, hear their stories, you tote them around. They flow in your blood and your dreams. They become a part of you.

Ebie, dear child. And he took me in his strong arms. You aren't angry with me? I couldn't believe it. Angry? Of course not. Courage is shown in different ways, Ebie. If others don't always recognize it, that's their fault, not ours.

He knows the most important language of all. Human compassion.

Cause that was more personal and more rewarding than to shoot her.

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

Perhaps robbing someone of his or her story is the greatest betrayal of all.

How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nationality, and increasing the numbers doesn't change much.