Quotes About Empathy

walk on, yes, but don't walk past people who need you. Uncurl yourself so you can see them and respond.

It was hard to fool someone who could tell what you were thinking.

Oh, you humans may prefer empathy and mercy, but that's like intuiting the answer to an equation: you still have to go back and work the problem to be certain you were right. We can come to genuinely moral conclusions by our own paths.

I forgot that other people might care what went on inside my heart.

Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.

Nothing in the world like the spark between men and women. What a marvelous and mysterious combination. Two sides of the same coin, you know. We both want the same thing, to give and receive love, to be cared for, respected. We just come at it from a different point of view.

Part of getting over pain and hurt doesn't always mean we have to talk about it. Sometimes it is wiser to keep our thoughts to ourselves. We forget how powerful words can be.

Love is vast, rich, textured. If you limit yourself to only romantic love, you will never love well.

Everyone, everything, needed love.

I'd actually spent some time in my bedroom moving around using only one leg,trying to raise my sympathy level when I got really frustrated with him.

The quickest road to trust comes by building a bridge of common experiences.

Jason was the next batter. He did his whole Velcro routine. Then he stepped up to the plate. The first ball went past. "Strike!" I groaned. "Come on, Jason." He swung at the second. I didn't realize I was squeezing Tiffany's and Bird's hands until Bird said, "You know, bones break under pressure." "Oh, sorry." I tried holding my own hands, but it wasn't as comforting.

I couldn't help but think she'd gotten her chest plus mine. But that was okay, because I liked to think I'd gotten her brains plus mine.

You knew he was going to break up with her," I said without preamble. She groaned. "Yeah, sorta. The guy-code stuff? He'd asked Shaun for tips on how to break up with a girl so that they stayed friends." "Well, he sure blew that.

Being human?" She smirks. "Be wary of a man who you don't want bringing you a cool towel when you're about to pass out from explosive diarrhea.

Be wary of a man who you don't want bringing you a cool towel when you're about to pass out from explosive diarrhea.

Isn't that what intimacy so often is? Supposing you understand, conveying that you do, because you feel in theory that you could understand, and you want to, and yet secretly you don't?

I can only know myself, if I can know anyone. I can only judge me.

By caring just that much less than whatever you ante as indifference.

It makes you feel good about yourself, especially in the beginning. It makes you feel good about other people. You want to give the whole world a break, a time-out, a tender regard. There

S]ympathy for people, without any sympathy for what caused their circumstances, [is] not real sympathy but sentimentality.

I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

The places in which we are seen and heard are holy places. They remind us of our value as human beings. They give us the strength to go on.