Quotes About Empathy

Jack says your letters still sound cheery, but I know that's just because you're putting on a good face for him. We think you're the one that needs cheering up, Bébé.

Edythe, I finally say, Why don't you go on back to your bunk and eat your boogers for a midnight snack like you always do at home? Well, that comment really sends my friends, and I'm a big hit. But then I see Edythe's face. It's like something has fallen on it and crumpled it in. Somehow she looks so familiar that I can feel her bones inside my own body. And I start to feel sort of sick. She turns and walks away and

My work expresses an infatuation with human beings. I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

That taught me a lesson I've always found it useful to remember if I have to deal with difficult men. When they are hard, they are probably dealing with things they do not understand. If one brings them back to what is familiar to them, they become soft.

Human relations are essentially imperfect.

When we talked to them we always expressed the love we felt for them and never made the chilling remarks which the part of us undesirous of friendship sometimes tricked us into making to those who might possibly have become our friends.

But why should a man want to marry a woman who doesn't do anything to people but blame them for things they haven't done? It will be like spending one's whole life being rubbed with moral sandpaper.

To lose such an important listener in life is like losing my shadow. With no shadow, does a person truly exist under the sun? With no listener, does a person really have a voice? Silence means so many things to human beings. Some of them are unbearable.

Friendship requires trust, empathy, and acceptance. I don't want to feel that I have to wear a disguise in front of my friends; otherwise, the friendship is worth nothing. Friendship means being accepted by a person for the way you are, and vice versa.

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Vivre les malheurs à l'avance, c'est les subir deux fois.

People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say.

Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen - to hear - so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes.

She thinks how sad it is that we remember the killers and not their victims. What if the world forgot Hitler and remembered all the names of his victims? What is we immortalized the victims?

Even monsters need peace. Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen--to hear --so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes. Then maybe we can stop men like me from happening.

MAY 19 COMPASSION CAN BE roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is non-violent and non-harming, or non-aggressive. Because of this there is a danger of confusing compassion with attachment and intimacy.

WHETHER ONE BELIEVES in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

MAY 12 I MYSELF STILL occasionally become irritated and angry and use harsh words towards others. Then, a few moments later when the anger has subsided, I feel embarrassed; the negative words are already spoken, and there is no way to take them back. Although the words have been uttered and the sound of the voice has ceased to exist, their impact still lives on. Hence, the only thing I can do is to go to the person and apologize, isn't that right?

I prefer to heed the wise words of Booker T. Washington: I would permit no man to drag down my soul by making me hate him.

solely through the slow and steady building of personal relationships that one discovers the fundamental truth that all people everywhere have the same dreams and aspirations, that all people struggle with the same fears and anxieties.

A king with no place to lay his head. A king who came to serve, not to be served.

No one can be fearless alone