Quotes About Empathy

When we discover and build upon our gifts it spurs positive feelings in us and those around us, and those feelings go a long way toward dissipating the burden of failure that many young Aspergians carry as kids.

learning how to get along with other people is vital for our own success and happiness.

Many descriptions of autism and Asperger's describe people like me as "not wanting contact with others" or "preferring to play alone." I can't speak for other kids, but I'd like to be very clear about my own feelings: I did not ever want to be alone.

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

Every man ... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.

My dear girl. I am equally fond of man and beast alike. There is not the slightest drop of enmity in my system.

Sometimes in life, you make a mistake and there's no buts and no explanations … There's no peace in 'I'm sorry, but.' You can't find peace until you truly understand that the only thing to say is, 'I'm sorry,' period. ~ John Lucas, as quoted in 'The Punch' by John Feinstein

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

Jefferson determined the lodestar that lay hidden in the motivations of others

The author distinguishes George Washington's leadership from that of another aristocratic general whose temperament was somewhat cold. Unlike him, Washington made the effort to at least appear to suffer with his troops.

Once you best a man, never gloat. Be generous and find something in his actions to praise. He won't enjoy being bested, but he'll make a good face of it. Show him you appreciate it. Praise can win you a friend. Gloating will only ever make enemies.

Bryn looked from Halt to Horace and back again. He saw no pity in either face. "I don't want to," he said in a very small voice. Horace found it hard to reconcile this cringing figure with the sneering bully who had been making his life hell for the past few months. Halt appeared to consider Bryn's statement. "We'll note your protest," he said cheerfully. "Now continue, please.

Bear with me on this, Evanlyn. I know you're anxious about Horace." WIll was a little puzzled by Halt's words. "No more anxious than the rest of us, surely," he said. Halt turned away and raised his eyebrows as his gaze met Selethen's. Sometimes, he thought, his former apprentice could be remarkably slow on the uptake. He saw the Arridi's slow nod of understanding. ~Halt & Will about Evanlyn and Horace

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

Will was worth at least a few tears from a grizzled old wreck like himself, he thought, and made no move to wipe them away.

Many rulers would have spent the morning complaining loudly about the cold and the discomfort, as if their complaints would actually serve to alleviate the situation and as if their attendants should be able to do something about it. Not the emperor. He accepted the situation knowing that he could do nothing to change the weather. Best to endure it without making life more difficult for those around him.

Horace felt an overwhelming need to sneeze. He tried to smother the sound, but only succeeded in making it louder. Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief. "Will you shut up?" he said tautly. Horace shrugged in apology. "I'm sorry," he said. "I sneezed. A person can't help it when they sneeze." "Perhaps not. But you could try to make it sound a little less like an elephant trumpeting in agony," Will told him.

People always find it amusing when they see a friend suffering, Stig thought.

It was a joke, Thorn. That was all. Just a joke." "A joke, my friend? No, I don't think so. A joke is when everyone can have a good laugh together. But when you do something that's spiteful and hurtful and causes misery to someone else, that's not a joke. That's cruelty.