Quotes About Empathy

I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

Can I ever know you Or you know me?

In my heart's most secret place, I pity them as angels do.

Faults They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before,— Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more.

I would beat with your heart as it beats, I would follow your soul as it leads.

I do think music teaches us the thing we most want to know: that we are not alone. On the other hand–remember I have reserved the right to be inconsistent–surely the only truth is that we are, in the end, alone.

The fact is,' she stated bluntly, 'I am no more a human being than a gust of wind is. I have never had a human individual life. I have … lived in the joys, sorrows and worries of other people … it is the non-human world I belong to myself. My people are mangroves, swamps, rivers and the sea and so on–we understand each other.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Thena . . . I fell in love with you as you are. Fractured, maybe. Lost, perhaps. But I'm no prize either.

C. S. Lewis said it this way: "In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. . . . I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do."12

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to God, we seek them out-not because of what we could possible offer them, as if we're the spiritual first responders on the scene to save the day, but because we recognize how much they have to teach us about who God really is." -Quoted by Sarah Arthur, Author of The One Year Daily Grind.

To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to honor someone means to treat all those things as more important than your own.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Don't confuse mercy for forgiveness.

In the history of the world, telling someone to 'calm down' has never done anything but piss them off more.

Cultivate kindness. Never steal anyone's hope.

Maybe I can find a place here, even with being different. «Look around,» Pixit said. «You already have one.»

I decided right then and there that I didn't care what the rest of the class thought, so long as someday I'd become friends with you. Took you a long time to notice I was there. - Gabriela, to Sky

I want to go to the mother, take her hand, and tell her that although she and her daughter believe that every bad choice the daughter has ever made in life is her fault, it's not. It's really, really not.

That is when I realize that I have the same gift he does: We can give each other back our youth.

A woman predisposed to be a mother can learn to love any baby, while a mother not so disposed does not even learn to love her own.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.