Quotes About Empathy

I understand, Ira.

I want her to be smart and kind... and I want you to fall in love with her, because you shouldn't spend the rest of your life alone.

I sold the collection because I finally understood what true love really meant. Tim had told me-and shown me-that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. - John Tyree

I know you may not believe it, but the last thing I want to do is hurt you or do anything that would make you regret that we've met." - Jeremy

While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.

You could have told me earlier." "You seemed so serious about the game. I didn't want to bother you.

But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and

I don't have the answer to that, other than to observe that friendship has to flow both ways. Both of you have to be willing to invest in the friendship in order to maintain it.

She was getting used to his rhythms and his moods, recognizing the quiet signals that telegraphed who he was. Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever. As she pulled into the driveway, she spotted Logan coming down the steps from the house, and she waved. She was his forever, too—imperfect as she was. Take it or leave it, she thought. She was who she was. As Logan walked toward her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

Everyone's entitled to a bad day.

Both. Some of the children here came from really horrible situations. It's enough to break your heart when you hear about it. But when they see you come in with some books from the library or a new game to play, their smiles just take all the sadness away. It's the greatest feeling in the world.

After what I did?" "Forgiveness doesn't mean you forget, or you stop wishing that you can change the past. Mainly it means that you accept the idea that you're not perfect, because no one is perfect. And terrible things can happen to anyone.

I'm not unintelligent, mind you. But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and in retrospect, I obviously lack many of those traits. Here's

One would say something that challenged the other, often leading to an argument, and she realized how much she'd missed that. Not because they fought, but because of the trust it implied and the forgiveness that inevitably followed.

Friendship isn't about how long you know someone. It's about who walks into your life, says 'I'm here for you,' and then proves it.

I don't think you did anything wrong. It's just that relationships are hard, and both people have to want them to work.

I've been lucky, for no one should ever be forced to march through life alone.

Como é que sabes que era amor? Bem, sabe-se que é amor quando tudo o que nos apetece fazer é estar com a outra pessoa, e sabemos mais ou menos que a outra pessoa sente o mesmo.

Intelligent? Kind?

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.

the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.

I sit by the bed with an aching back, and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. I am tired now, so I sit, alone and apart from my wife. And when the nurses come in they see two people they must comfort. A woman shaking in fear and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

She's a cautious one, he observed. Kiss her once, and she seemed to question it all. But allow her to lead, and the caution seemed to fade. He knew she was trying to figure him out, trying to match his story to the man she saw sitting across from her. But there was no mistaking the sympathy on her face the moment she realized how similar they were.

You need to learn how to forgive. Ronnie was angery at herself for pushing everyone that loved her away. the theme of this book is to let everyone have a second chance. as Ronnie had learnt this by the end of the story and forgave herself and others including her father and Will.