Quotes About Empathy

The world is not black and white. There is no black and white. There's only gray. You have to live in the gray, or you got no kindness in your heart. You gotta see the gray.

Some to whom evil is done resolve never to inflict such pain on anyone and become very good indeed.

The trouble with the world is that you forget that there are good people in it.

I hate these wife-beating bastards. Got to be something wrong with someone who has to hit women.

Before you run to tell somebody what they are doing is wrong, consider how you learned about it in the first place.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears—by listening to them. —DEAN RUSK

What do I really want for myself? What do I really want for others? What do I really want for the relationship?

An apology is a statement that sincerely expresses your sorrow for your role in causing—or at least not preventing—pain or difficulty to others.

That's all right." Abby picked up the towelette and wiped Roisin's face for her. "When it's a guy problem, we all speak the same language. So your boyfriend's a bird," she said when Roisin's cheeks were tear-free. "It is kind of creepy, but once he changed back, he looked totally Italian.

But if I hear that any creatures are being hunted or abused, I will come back and take this off your head." "Whoa, Tea," Abby said. " You'll take off his head?" "I'll help," Enkidu said happily. "I didn't say I'd take off his head. I said I'd take the crown off his head." "It was totally in your tone of voice, though," Abby insisted.

You were talking to that niche in the wall again, Gwyneth. I saw you." "Yes, but it's my favorite bit of wall, Gordon. I'd hurt its feelings if I didn't stop and talk to it.

Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.

Pero por amor se hacen las cosas que de otro modo nunca se harían.(...)Cuando se quiere a alguien, de repente el otro es más importante que uno mismo.

I can take criticism. Or at least, I can if you put it nicely.

I'm sure he knows you love him. All fathers know that children sometimes say things they really don't mean.

Charlotte faceva sempre quello che le dicevo. Tu invece no. E questo è molto scocciante. Però anche divertente. E dolce." Stavolta non fu solo il suo sguardo a farmi vacillare.

That's the trouble. It's really hard to understand if you haven't experienced it.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

When two beings want the same thing, they can communicate. And when two beings want the same thing that neither can attain on their own, they can connect. A want held in common weaves life into one network, a worldwide web of feeling.

Sometimes I remember the way I used to be," she said as we sat across the table from each other, "and I'm surprised nobody ever smacked me." I took a long sip of my coffee so that I would not have to answer her. I wanted to tell her that she ought to be more generous to the girl she used to be, if not out of respect for herself, then out of respect for me, or more specifically for the boy I used to be, who loved that girl, after all.

She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.

They were like those deep-sea creatures with watery, transparent skin: you could see the soft little jerking beans of their hearts, you understood that the very thing that was supposed to protect them was the thing that made them vulnerable, and you knew you couldn't help them, so you decided to love them instead.

You can do just about anything you want — as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, or anything, it's probably OK.

Stories aren't facts, Cait, they're not details. Stories are feelings. You've got your feelings, haven't you?" "Too many," I said. "Well, that's all you need." He put his hand on mine. "Cry yourself a story, love. It works. Believe me." So that's what I did, I cried myself a story. And this is it.