Quotes About Empathy

Seeking out people with different views, different perspectives, different ideas is often challenging, because it requires us to set aside judgment and open our minds. But we have to remind ourselves that to get beyond where we are, where I believe most of us are, we would all be be well served to choose our music carefully, to stop talking and listen to one another.

If you are open, vulnerable, disclosing, more likely than not it will be reciprocated and walls will come down.

The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter's intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who is able to separate her identity from her daughter's, has the key to achieving the right balance.

I sobbed for the girl, me, the other girl, the other me, and how he was hurting her - me..."the other girl," I said to her. "It's the other girl, Caroline. Don't let her be alone." (154)

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

There are silences and there are silences; some are wordless, yet you communicate; others are like loud black voids which separate and isolate people.

Maybe that's what love was -- walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

It's best to know what your issues are before going ahead with a relationship.

It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked

I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.

Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.

I'm sorry," I said. "You didn't do nothing," he said in surprise. "I can be sorry even if it's not my fault." He looked at me as if this were a new idea for him.

I was finding it difficult to speak with any vivacity, any pleasure. I wanted to get off the phone. I wanted him to feel bad, too.

Women, of whatever age, share secrets with each other more readily than they share them with men.

Fiction, also--if done well--can perhaps allow the reader a greater feeling of recognition with people of the past. If we read a novel about people trying to control the Revolution, we're reading about them as people who have desires, ambitions, and neuroses just like ours, and we can relate to them, rather than seeing them just as stiff portraits with funny-looking hair--or as the one-dimensional monsters or saints that many pop histories have made them.

In this time of , music is vital.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.

when people suffer terrible losses they need to have an opportunity to talk about them. Being isolated with your sorrow is such a lonely place to be.

Two Questions Every Caregiver Needs to Hear: How can I help? Want to talk about it? Ask. Listen. Then listen some more..."- Stress relief author, Susie Mantell

Two questions every caregiver needs to hear: How can I help? Want to talk about it? Ask. Listen. Then listen some more...

I see the wise woman. And she sees me.

What's the point of complaining. It just makes the people around you feel bad too." - Savannah