Quotes About Empathy

The thing was, Qhuinn felt like he wanted to explain things. Unfortunately, and unlike his slut cousin, Saxton the Cocksucker, he had no gift with words.

The heart, as it turned out, could break in a million different ways: It didn't have to be a loss or a death. No, the inability to help someone you loved was shattering.

Joy si immaginò la donna dall'altra parte del telefono e desiderò poter essere quella persona nella vita di Gray; quella che cercava per un consiglio e che chiamava quando non era sicuro e che teneva tra le braccia la notte... «Ti voglio bene, mamma» disse il ragazzo prima di terminare la comunicazione. Okay. Non voleva essere la madre di Gray. Però le sarebbe piaciuto avere l'opportunità di essere sua pari. La sua compagna.

You need someone who you can count on to give you this support during your own down times. You need someone who you always know will be there for you to provide you with the encouragement and affirmation you need during the time you are suffering and to celebrate with you when you triumph.

The problem comes in when you sacrifice your peace of mind and happiness for the sake of others.

At the heart of compassion is the ability to put yourself in other people's shoes and tempering your reactions to them through empathy. If you do not understand what someone is going through it is hard to feel compassion for them. You do not want to be that person who is always telling others 'I wish you would just get over it already'.

When people tell you their problems do not be dismissive of them and their feelings.

It's an exceptional thing to have someone in your life who knows and understands you so well. Who loves who you are. A very exceptional thing.

I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm. ----Roarke, Naked In Death

those who love suffer when who they love suffers.

You go into marriage, you plow a road. You're going to hit rough patches, and some may be rougher and last longer than others, but you've got choices to make. You work to smooth them out, you hold until they do, or they don't. You stick with the road, or you get off. But you don't do something to make it worse, don't do something that maybe makes you feel better for the short term while it sucker punches the person you're married to.

Friends give you a cushion for the fall, even when you think you don't need or want one.

It's here, inside me, and it'll bite off pieces when it can. But I can take it because you're there. Because you know how it feels. You're the only one who really knows. And becasue you love me enough to feel it. When you look at me, and I see that, I can take anything.

It's so difficult for two shy people to manage.

Anyone who deliberately makes someone else feel less, feel helpless? That person is a coward. They're the weak ones, the shameful ones. What

Sometimes a well-placed lie saved friendships, and sanity.

But you're smarter than even he thinks he is. She paused, thought that through. If you get me. Aren't we full of compliments tonight? I'll have to bang you against the wall more often.

Sadder and sadder," Peabody said when they were back on the sidewalk. "I guess you don't think of how many people you brush up against, or how they might remember you. The guy at your corner deli, or the owner of your favorite take-out spot. The clerk where you usually shop for clothes. Not to sound too Free-Agey, but it matters. It all matters, what we leave behind with the people we brush up against.

After a while, Eve thought, marriage turned walls into clear glass so both of you could see right through each other.

She'd know. Ain't nobody more psychic than a wife.

And oddly, she realized, it wasn't small talk when it was with a friend. It was just . . . talk.

There was the answer to why people got tangled with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

Don't you swat away my concerns like they're gnats around your ears." He got to his feet as well. "Don't you dare make light of them, Eve, or what it is to me to sit and wait.

And don't climb on your golden horse with me, Roarke. Don't you even start. That would be 'high horse,' Lieutenant.