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Quotes About Empathy

I do," Olaf says. "Love is putting someone else's needs before yours, like, you know, how Kristoff brought you back here to Hans and left you forever.
~ Elise Allen
The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.
~ Elise Broach
That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.
~ Elise Broach
I suppose we never know what we have the capacity to forgive until we're truly tested.
~ Elise Broach
The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud. James
~ Elise Broach
It was more than happiness. More than affection or gratitude. It was something deeper. It was the sense of being seen and loved exactly for who he was.
~ Elise Broach
We know so little about what goes on in another person's head.
~ Élise Turcotte
What does the world care about either you or me? Nothing. But we care for each other, and I grasp at every opportunity of telling it. A letter, they may say, would do as well for that purpose as a dedication. I say no; for a letter is a sort of corruptible substance, and these volumes may be IMMORTAL. Beside, it is perhaps my pride to write a dedication and your pride to receive one. I desire the world then to let it pass; for, to tell them a truth—you have paid me for it before-hand.
~ Eliza Fenwick
Numberless are the hours, child,' Mr. Valmont said to me soon after I entered, 'that I have employed in pondering on your welfare:—yet you are not the docile and grateful creature I expected to find you.
~ Eliza Fenwick
Sandy is kind. But she has a smart mind
~ Elizabeth
If I have all the faith so as to move mountains,but do not have love,then I an nothing.
~ Elizabeth
Each play worth seeing should be watched a second time on the faces of the audience.
~ Elizabeth (Asquith) Bibesco
Those we love are entitled to resent the allowances we make for them.
~ Elizabeth (Asquith) Bibesco
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
~ Elizabeth (Asquith) Bibesco
You could never demand intimacy -- you could only volunteer it.
~ Elizabeth A. Lynn
What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance. In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun. On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp -- praise song for walking forward in that light.
~ Elizabeth Alexander
Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.
~ Elizabeth Andrew
Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.
~ Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Live simply that others might simply live.
~ Elizabeth Ann Seton
Mark I. Rosen writes, "We admire traits in others that we admire in ourselves; we denigrate others when their behavior doesn't conform to our values. We find it almost impossible to climb inside someone else's head and see the world through different eyes.
~ Elizabeth B. Brown
Communication is a combination of right words and sensitive acts.
~ Elizabeth B. Brown
With new vision she would see not only the wrong actions on the part of the screwed-up mother who caused chaos in her life, but her own responses and actions that were adding to the problem. With aerial vision she would fly above the fray and see that it takes two people to keep conflict and control alive.
~ Elizabeth B. Brown
Dreams of doing good For good-for-nothing people.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning