Quotes About Empathy

He taught her something new about friendship: it picked right back up where you'd left off, as if you hadn't been apart at all.

You don't stop loving a person when they're hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

We are all fragile. It's the thing we learn in war

Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing." "I'm supposed to watch her make a mistake?" "Sometimes, yes. And then you stand by to pick up the pieces.

We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them.

Jean reached over for Elsa's hand and held it. Elsa hadn't known until right then how much difference a friend could make. How one person could lift your spirit just enough to keep you upright.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. 'Real hurts.'

The measure of a society is its compassion.

Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.

The things your parents say and the things your husband doesn't say become a mirror, don't they? You see yourself as they see you, and no matter how far you come, you bring that mirror with you.

I think, as this war goes on, we will all have to look more deeply. These questions are not about them, but about us.

It's like his back is broken, Mama had said, and you don't stop loving a person when they're hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you. He needs me. Us.

If he loved you guys, he wouldn't hurt you." He made it sound so simple, as if it were a mathematical equation. But the connection between pain and love wasn't linear. It was a web.

It's not weak, you know. To feel things deeply, to want things. To need.

Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up.

What has the individual personality to do with the plight of the many?

Uno mira hacia atrás con agradecimiento a los maestros brillantes, pero con gratitud a aquellos que tocaron nuestros sentimientos humanos. El plan de estudios es tanto la materia prima necesaria, pero el calor es el elemento vital de la planta en crecimiento y para el alma del niño

The psychologist has come to see that nothing is achieved by telling, persuading, admonishing, giving good advice.

What is most personal is most universal.

If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual,