Quotes About Empathy

For her, it's profoundly absurd that people—specifically, fellow Americans . . . many of them educated, middle-class millennials who've never experienced anything like real hardship—can hate a country that frequently does so much good, both domestically and internationally.

It must have been quite terrible for you, my dear,' I said, giving her a companionable and comforting pat on the head.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

The difference between "romantic" and "creepy" is the other person's reaction to it.

The key to really learning how to deal with difficult people is to understand that it is OK to not understand why they are the way they are.

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils—all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

Me?utim, onaj ko ne voli pripadnike drugih naroda, ne voli, naglasio sam, ni svoj narod, te ako kažem da ne volim strance, ja u isto vreme priznajem da živim u praznini, lišen bilo ?ije ljubavi. A onaj u kome nema ljubavi, ni podarene ni ponu?ene, taj i više nije ljudsko bi?e, jer ljubav je ono što nas definiše u sistemu prirode koju nastanjujemo.

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.

Can love help a person to get better?' I asked.

On the most basic level, men and women are the same. We both need to love and be loved, to have someone we feel we matter to, and who matters to us.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else's life might alter hers.

No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently. That's what I'm saying.

She sat, rediscovering the fullness of her first tongue in one long submersion. Again and again she would pause on a word Melio uttered. She would roll it around in her mind, feeling the contours of it. At times her mouth gaped open, her lips moving as if she were drinking in his words instead of breathing.

No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently.

Indie sat there without speaking for moment, then shook her head. "It's no problem," she said. "The thought that you might need it just makes me a little bit nervous, that's all. I'll be okay." He went

think he understands that you wouldn't do that

there are people in this world who either give or take. The givers walk into a room and they, believe it or not, give. They make that room brighter by offering it any type of succor that it requires. They help people when they need it. They are an ear that listens. A voice that gives advice. Or they are just simply able to share the weight of burden. They offer compassion, sympathy, a rosey smile that lifts you up. They inspire.

Again, this exists in people to differing degrees, and it is possible to have someone who is neutral—right in the middle of the spectrum. But Jimmy Palmer isn't neutral. He is about as far down in the dark depths as you can go. He is a sociopath. A psychopath. A man who has no feeling for those of his fellow creatures. He sees his family as his own to do whatever he wants with.

Do you always have to keep your claws out and sharp? Has it ever occurred to you that some of us might just want to be friendly?

He loved mankind, it was people he couldn't stand.

In that city, if people caught the faintest whiff that you were in trouble, that you were a victim, your friends disappeared faster than a bowl of punch at an AA convention.