Quotes About Empathy

He said it was because Christopher was willing to share the day with Daniel, but Daniel wasn't willing to share the day with Christopher." - Nathan's Grandfather

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I wasn't into blame. Maybe because I had so much of it directed at me, you know? I guess you can go one of two ways with that. You can reflect it right back out at everybody else, or you can drop out of the whole blame paradigm. I guess I chose not to play the game anymore.

I just blurted it out. I wasn't really thinking. I do that all the time. Talk first, think later. It's my curse. I'm really sorry.

It means feelings come through loud and clear whether you express them in words or not." - Nathan

Sometimes the people around you will have problems, and you'll wish they didn't, but there won't be anything you can do. You just have to trust them to get by as best they can.

lot of roads. Some not so happy. And it makes them what they are. So if you run around putting a pillow under people to cushion their fall . . . well, I'm just not sure it's quite the favor we think it is.

After a moment August felt Henry's arms wrap around his chest, and the little guy's face pressed up hard on his shoulder. "Don't be sad, August," the little mouse voice said.

when a person is rude and abusive to me, it's not about me at all. They can say something terrible to me or about me, but they're revealing themselves, not me. It has nothing to do with me. They're just showing me the landscape on the inside of themselves as they project it out onto somebody else.

I wondered if a white person could ever comment on the minority experience and get it right.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I got that when a person is rude and abusive to me, it's not about me at all. They can say something terrible to me or about me, but they're revealing themselves, not me. It has nothing to do with me. They're just showing me the landscape on the inside of themselves as they project it out onto somebody else.

I just think it's odd how we parse out our empathy," he said. "Why we only have empathy for those who remind us most of ourselves.

I can't help wondering what the world would be like if our empathy muscle were a bit more developed.

When you're working with dementia patients, life is hard for both of you, but at least you don't have to keep coming up with new repartee. And I really don't say that to make light of the situation. I say it to find light in the situation, which I honestly think is a favor to all involved.

the problem with unforgivable. The more I research the bodymind, the more I get that the only workable path to workable health is to forgive the unforgivable in spite of its unforgivability.

Well, if we're being honest with ourselves, it's hard most of the time. But we have each other. What else do we have but each other? And what would we do without each other? It would be unbearable.

Everyone knows, on some deep level, the conversations in which they don't belong. Chloe

He still keeps more of his insides to himself than I mightve hoped for, but things like that are never a zero-sum game. YOu get progres, you be grateful for it. In the realm of wounded humans, you're never going to have it all. Also, I should noye that in my opinion, we're all wouned humans. The rest is just a matter of degree." Stay by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Sometimes it's easy to want something for somebody else, even if it's more than you want for yourself.

Any decent man has to feel something for a woman who dearly loves him. Gratitude, if he can muster nothing else.

Talking to robots made real humans more robotic.

Look, I get it," she added. "I'm not without empathy. He upset you, and the upset needs time to move through you. It usually takes me about three days to let a thing like that move all the way through my system and move on. But while you're waiting, try not to feed it.