Quotes About Empathy

Her friendship . . . still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to.

The most important thing to remember in life is to be kind.

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

Happily, though we must each walk through life on our own, we don't have to do it alone.

Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.

I didn't realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?

The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best thing I can do in life.

None of us are too sensitive to live our purpose.

Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends

My life is only half full When I receive. My heart is completely full Only when I give.

I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.

You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

If you find yourself ruminating over a hurt and are not ready to forgive, shift to gratitude. Think about all that is good in your life and all that you appreciate.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.

I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and they gave solace and comfort and companionability more than a person.