Quotes About Empathy

Best Freinds They know how stupid you look and still chose to be seen in public with you

Eyes are most effective - getting a point across!

After all, suicide is contagious.

Shame is the best teacher.

You don't beat a monster by becoming one yourself.

It's not like humans worry if they've hurt the feelings of their … toaster.

It's funny how seeing another person hurt can break you down faster than your own emotions.

It's funny how seeing another person hurt can break you down faster than your own emotions" -Audrey

Forgiveness is voluntary

Be kind to yourself, Michael," she said. "You're the one who has to live with you.

It's nice to see Cameron has friends again," she whispers to me. "I've been worried about him.

What if I needed help?" I asked. "Then I would help you." He said it like it was the only answer.

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

But that emotional reaction isn't you being dumb or irrational; you are being human. It is hard to stay committed to anything when you are feeling vulnerable and threatened.

You need face time, not computer time. When you're in a tough job market, it's the personal touch that gets you the job.

I can always recognize the fellow wounded.

Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

Always surround yourself with friends with plenty of light in them. That way you will be surrounded by candles when days are dark.

The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.

I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner life.

My mom says . . . there are bad people who hurt others for fun . . . and there are good people who do it by accident. Like, they make a mistake? I think you're a good person.

Strength is a resource. If you have a lot and someone doesn't, you gotta share yours.

Penelope? Thank you. For not leaving me alone to deal with this . . . when things got hard. other people would have. You're a true friend.