Quotes About Empathy

Why did you choose to save me?" "I could not let you die." He placed the plate and glass on the kitchen counter. "But you have let goodness knows how many people die. Why me?" "You made me..." He leaned against the counter and looked at her. "You made me…feel.

He moved closer to her. "You did not have to get me anything. The fact that you did means I have been in your thoughts. I am thankful for that.

the big problem with motherhood of girls, it seems to me, is that we're both women.

i just want my girls to have babies. that's all. so they know what i know.

Why was it that, sometimes, you needed to see people closest to you as others saw them to remember how fantastic they were? Why couldn't you always remember that?

she was a person, jen, and people aren't perfect. and she wasn't perfect. and that's okay

Porque será que, de vez em quando, precisamos de ver as pessoas que nos são mais próximas através dos olhos dos outros para nos lembrarmos de como são fantásticas? Porque não temos isso sempre presente?

Carefully honed skills enabled her to "see" the photograph with her strong eye for composition, and a heart guided by compassion. Equally

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

I only have one tip on how to stop an argument. Decide that "Feeling Good" is far more important than "Being Right!

I only have one tip on how to get respect. Rather than speaking your mind, speak from the heart.

He had always known that to truly receive, you had to give. Now he understood the equal truth: that to be able to give with a whole heart you had to be prepared to receive in turn.

People say a lot of things in anger," she said. "It is our choice whether or not to listen.

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will

it´s just...today has really sucked, and when you´re around stuff doesn´t seem so crappy - Will

I think... I think sometimes that's how it is. Sometimes people have to go before you get stuff. Before you can really get it.

And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now. Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me.

And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it's not that easy.

How can I remember a world that isn't mine? One that isn't the one I wake up in every day now?

I want to care, but I don't.

I have found Ray's new girl. I have found the new me. I think about her all the way home, how she will cry and scream and plead just like I did. It makes me smile. Everyone on the bus who sees me smile looks away. They see that I am all wrong, that my smile means someone else's pain, but no one says anything.

when we have passed our great test, we are then given opportunities to reach out to other people. We are able to effect change in a way that otherwise we wouldn't have been able to.

I think what Vincent wanted was for me to find him in his words, even between the lines. Then he wanted me to write him a story he could live in just as I had once told him I might.