Quotes About Empathy

But it'd be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk to about anything, someone who'd tell me I was really special.

Ah, jeez... She really is a cheerleader.' And it seemed suddenly that this was true- not because she was an airhead or a hottie or a nonjock, but because she could throw herself so wholeheartedly into someone else's cause, because she could care so much and try so hard from the sidelines.

Never be mean to another female about her appearance. Especially if it's something she has no control over . . . Natalie

Ian had Always found his little sister a bit annoying, but lately he'd actually felt sorry for her, watching her try so hard to please their mother, who'd become completely impossible to please. What changed? Ian wondered. What happened? Is it really just that we're… losing?

Never be mean to another female about her appearance. Especially if it's something she has no control over . . .

I just wanted everyone to have one," Finn said, grinning crookedly. "It made me feel better to draw them. And, remember, we're from this world, and we're nice. And so's Other-Natalie. So couldn't this be a heart kind of place if people tried a little harder?" Other

bouncing along with Finn's every step. . . . Chess realized that just looking at Emma and Finn had comforted him. It was like they were coins, too.

The cruelest form of torture one can inflict on a kender is to lock him up. Of course, it is also widely believed that the cruelest form of torture one can inflict on any other species is to lock them up with a kender.

Say that our lives are measured not by gain but by giving.

Be thankful you can feel pity and horror at the death of an enemy. The day we cease to care, even for our enemies, is the day we have lost this battle.

It seems to me that being a great friend is more important than being a great hero or a great warrior. Being a good friend is the most important thing there is. Just think, if everyone in the world were great friends, then we wouldn't be such terrible enemies.

reach out your hand, and it will touch the hand of someone reaching out to you, and—together—you will find the strength and hope you need to go on.

Pity, mercy, compassion. Thats's all I'm afraid, said Alfred. That is everything, said the phantasm.

Tanis listens to his feelings. He does not suppress them, as does the knight, or hide them, as does the Plainsman. Tanis realizes that sometimes a leader must think with his heart and not his head." Raistlin glanced at her. "Remember that.

Our lives are measured not by gain but by giving.

Say that our lives are measured not by gain but by giving." The half-elf started to reply, but the Forestmaster interrupted.

Pity, mercy, compassion." "That's all, I'm afraid," said Alfred. "That is everything," said the phantasm.

You cannot believe the loneliness', he said at last, so softly that Orla was forced to move closer to him to hear. 'The mensch are so very, very lonely. The only means they have of communicating are physical. They must rely on words or a look or a gesture to describe what they feel, and their languages are so limited. Most of the time, they are unable to express what they truly mean, and so they live their lives and die without ever knowing the truth, about themselves or others.

because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit

Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real you don't mind being hurt. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.

When you are Real you don't mind being hurt

The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.

He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.