Quotes About Empathy

the reading of fiction facilitated the development of social skills because it provides the reader with the experience of thinking about other people.

I hate those movies, those books, where some guy gets to go off and have adventures and meanwhile the girl has to stay home and wait. I'm a feminist. I subscribe to Bust magazine, and I watch Buffy reruns. I don't believe in that kind of shit.

I am willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn't have to!

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.

If someone doesn't care about himself, you begin to lose interest after a while.

People want miracles. Sometimes the only miracle is, I take your hand. That's the miracle." A

Lonesome creates diseases that friendship cures.

Lonesome makes friends of strangers.

It's easier to catch a horse than break him.

A man who can't take a word of criticism hears it the most.

Do not feed nuts to a man with no teeth.

It's always the same. When you come out of it and take a look around, the sight of wounds that you have left on the people who care for you makes you wince more than those you have inflicted on yourself. Though I am devoid of regret or remorse for almost anything I have done, if there is a corner for these feelings then it lies with that awareness. It should be enough to stop you from ever going back down there, but it seldom is. Anthony Loyd, My War Gone By, I Miss It So.

Will you be all right? Should I call somebody?" "No, no there's no one to call." You hear that, you usually feel for the person.

Should you perceive a problem, you surround that problem with love. You define it in love. You recognize that it is caused by the lack of love that lies behind all problems. And with love you introduce the understanding that provides the solution.

In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.

It is easy to say that a fan can stay at home, or at home he can change a channel and watch something else. But it isn't as simple as that. A sports fan loves his sport. A fan in Toronto loves hockey, and if the Leafs are bad, he loses something he loves and has no way to replace the loss.

That forgiveness is the power to resist bitterness. And surrender, the power to resist selfishness.

Sometimes isolation can be shared.

bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one toward

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.