Quotes About Empathy

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did

Write what you care about, write what moves you, what intrigues you and you find compelling, write what angers you and makes you sad.

He is interested in the feelings of the squash ball, and of the champagne bottle that launches the ship. In a football match his sympathy is not with either of the teams but with the ball, or, in a match ending nil-nil, with the hunger of the goalmouth.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

she bid me to look out on the lawn at the leper girls who were running on lame feet, playing croquet with crippled hands. "There is beauty," she said, "in the least beautiful of things.

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

The real interaction designer's decisions are based on what the user is trying to achieve.

A four-year-old may believe that her thoughts also have the power to affect what happens to others, and so she will feel guilty should misfortune befall someone about whom she has had an angry thought.

You can't go through sustained cruelty and terror for a large swathe of your life and not talk about it and be okay.

And we have the same colour eyes. When I look into his, I feel I'm looking into myself.

I have set out to tell you the things you don't know about me, in the hope that, one day perhaps, you will feel able to tell someone what they don't know about you.

I have come to realise that no one sees the world quite the way you do. Even with a great deal of shared experience there is always a shift of a few degrees in perspective, and no one's pain is ever the same as yours.

those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.

That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock

The peer feedback she gives them is, Look in the mirror. I've got to tell you, you are not what Hitler meant by a master race.

Always seek to allow others the space to be imperfect.

other and often occur simultaneously.

The more people respond positively to you, the easier it is to maintain a good attitude and joyful outlook.

Sometimes, when I was looking out for my own happiness, I almost forgot you existed.

It was easy to think the worst of humanity when all I saw was brutality and selfishness, and these people showed me there was still good in the world, even if I rarely saw it.

What were they thinking, those little German children? Did they see animals when they looked at us, or people? I wasn't so sure myself anymore.