Quotes About Empathy

was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

She knew Miles didn't understand. Last night he'd made that sound—that sigh of desperation or despair—when she couldn't change into a nightgown. He didn't understand how fragile she felt. If she lifted her arms, they might break off.

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we . . . bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.

Here and now, I can do something that will make a difference in someone's life, and perhaps that—the simple act of helping someone else—will help me in my own.

Nina, you should never sing in front of people if they cannot leave.

and it reminds me how fragile we all are, how easily we can wound one another, especially when love is involved.

That was the thing about her dad: he might be moody and sharp-tempered, even a little scary sometimes, but that was just because he felt things like love and loss and disappointment so keenly.

You shine a light on hard times. This is what your pictures do. You do not let people look away from that which hurts.

As I write, I am reminded of that passage from the Bible—the one that is read at every wedding: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child." Now, I understand as an adult. Maybe for the first time in my life. This article would break my mother's heart, and perhaps even worse, her spirit. That didn't matter to me a week ago; in fact, I wanted to hurt her then. My only excuse: then I was a child.

Teach the boys how to be gentlemen and Marah how to be strong.

You understand. I know you do. Your people are starving, dying. Thousands are homeless. They can't make enough money picking to survive. Help me convince them to strike for better wages. They'll listen to you.

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.

The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.

They'd sewn their lives together in the silent way of women unused to conversation.

They call you names because they don't want to think of you as like them.

Not monsters; just boys, really.

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.

We have to try to save him or we are as bad as they are," she

It was all she really wanted: someone to talk to.

could change how I feel about you? Really, Mom?

A veces ser una buena amiga pasa por no decir nada. —¿Se supone que tengo que dejar que se equivoque? —A veces sí. Y luego recoges los pedazos.

became a mother that she knew now: it was only possible to live without love when you'd never known it.

Best friends fight. They lose sight of what matters.