Quotes About Empathy

Deep empathy for people makes our observations powerful sources of inspiration.

It was like traveling back in time, meeting the person you used to be, and recognizing her as a friend.

we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something new about the world, and maybe about ourselves, or to remind us of something important that we may have forgotten.

NO SHOES? WE LOVE YOU!

How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass?

What happens to them matters to them.

Cries for help are frequently inaudible.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

we do know that she's compassionate and eccentric—an excellent combination in a human being;

Whether I'm unduly sensitive to this pain because I'm a princess—could the whole world be the pea under my mattress?—I don't know, but because I'm a princess, I might be able to do something to help lessen humanity's pain.

Definitions are limiting. Limitations are deadening. To limit oneself is a kind of suicide. To limit another is a kind of murder.

He said that when you're locked up, smoking a cigarette is like having a friend.

I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?

To approach sex carelessly, shallowly, with detachment and without warmth is to dine night after night in erotic greasy spoons. In time one's palate will become insensitive.

I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?

How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them

Her vulnerability to Wiggs was opening her up (as voluntary vulnerability often can ) in unexpected ways.

I ask that any and all beings assist and comfort anyone that I have ever harmed either physically, mentally, morally, spiritually or emotionally in any past, present or future life, and I ask any and all beings to assist and comfort the families and friends of anyone I have ever harmed in any way, in any past, present or future life, thank you!

If I write a book I do it mostly for myself for the child in me and for the adult in me. The criterion for my children's books is: If I were a child would I like it That's very egotistical but it's the same thing with my books for adults. I wouldn't do a book if I didn't want to partake and share. With a book I can do both: I give and I share.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations...

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like you,' he whispered to her. 'There's got to be at least one more woman like you.