Quotes About Empathy

The Covey believe you're put on earth to reduce the misery, not add to it. Do you think the Hunger Games are right?" she asked.

You think I'm heartless." "I know you're not. But I won't tell you it's okay," I say.

So that's what you're thinking now?" I shrug. "Katniss, as your oldest friend, believe me when I say he's not seeing you as you really are.

Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me." "Yes, it feels very convincing,

It must be excruciating, but I lost all my sympathy for Haymitch when I realized how he had deceived us.

Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him.

That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years. But there are much worse games to play.

A kind Peeta Mellark is far more dangerous to me than an unkind one.

Katniss," he says. I go over to him and brush the hair back from his eyes. "Thanks for finding me." "You would have found me if you could," I say.

Our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us". ? Peeta Mellark.

I get a glimpse of the blond braid down her back. Then, as she yanks off her coat to cover a wailing child, I notice the duck tail formed by her untucked shirt. I have the same reaction I did the day Effie Trinket called her name at the reaping.

And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him. Running.

You've seen how people are, when someone they love is in pain.

Just give him the medicine!" I scream at her. "Give it to him! Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain he can stand!

Gentlemanly behavior isn't just opening doors: to make an impression, you have to be concerned over a lady's needs at least as much as your own.

N complained of his unhappiness whereas I bore mine like a Brownie badge. I like to think I acted out less than he did, but I am probably wrong. I can´t see anymore.

I studied the man in front of me. It was hard to see beyond the uniform and not see the German soldier, part of the occupying force, but if I looked closer there was a man, a person, someone with compassion and empathy standing there

Life is full of tests. They are not multiple choice. There is only one answer: Love

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Misery is when grown-ups don't realize how miserable kids can feel.

There are disagreements and conflicts in the relationship, but each individual cares enough about the other to make up and forgive. (Dogs forgive us far easier than we forgive them.) Parents

Sometimes you can't say no to someone.

The true friend . . . knows that you need him in that very moment –not tomorrow, not next week. By next week you may happy, or you may be dead.