Quotes About Empathy

You couldn't handle being me." She swirled her forefingers around her head and admitted, "All that goes on inside this head at any given time…would destroy you.

Kindness I can manage, even when affection I can't.

if a being has sufficient sense of justice and civility to know it has done wrong, knowing it has done wrong is often sufficient punishment. If the being has no remorse, punishment will only increase its anger.

Decirle a la gente lo que realmente piensas es a menudo una idea malísima. Como solía decir la abuela, la gente sensata vierte aceite en aguas revueltas, no nitroglicerina.

You have to notice people to be that sure about them.

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you've just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

What about me?" I asked. "Am I mean?" "You aren't mean to me with words," she said. "You're mean to me with your silences.

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies.

In this world, we must love the liars or go unloved

I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart.

Sometimes we meet a character and we fall so hopelessly in love with him or her that we want to be that character, no matter how tough they have it, no matter how they might mess things up.

My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.

So I draw because I want to talk to the world. And I want the world to pay attention to me.

All of these white kids and teachers, who were so suspicious of me when I first arrived, had learned to care about me. Maybe some of them even loved me. And I'd been so suspicious of them. And now I care about a lot of them. And loved a few of them.

What do you have to worry about? That you're lonely? That you have a mortgage? That your wife doesn't love you? F you, F you. I have to worry about having enough to eat!

world. Put down your fucking guns and pick up your kids.

They wanted to help me with my pain.

What do you say to people when they ask you how it feels to lose everything?

Sir, in your thirty-nine years as a parent, you broke your children's hearts, collectively and individually, 612 times and you did this without ever striking any human being in anger. Does this absence of physical violence make you a better man than you might otherwise have been?

Maria was staring at me like I was wearing purple socks. 'Wow," she said. "That's exactly what music is.' And then she started crying again. But this time, she wept quietly. 'You understand," she said. 'You really understand.

The stuff that you hate in others is often the stuff you hate in yourself. But perhaps you can learn something about yourself when this happens. When you are angry at somebody, what does that say about who YOU are?