Quotes About Empathy

I guess you could say I'm 'kind' to my past books in the way you might be kind to an old boyfriend you still quite like and bear no grudge against but with whom have absolutely no interest in getting back together.

I have no interest in bantering back and forth with someone who is the exact person that I am trying not to become, and stay away from, by degrading women, by going after my family, in a manner that is intended to harm.

Mean doesn't last. Mean is over fast. Maybe this is the essence of everything, which is, to me, if there is no emotional center for what I'm doing, I have no interest in it at all.

Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'

It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

If you read people great then you can become a great No Limit Hold 'Em player.

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

We live in a world where mental health is real. Emotional health is real, and people feel like no one cares.

There's no point screaming and shouting at the manager.

There's no point meeting somebody with a meat cleaver the moment they open their mouth - because they're going to clam up, you're going to have lost your impact and the audience is going to hate you for not allowing anyone to say anything.

To me, there's no point in having confrontation for the sake of it.

I have no problem with how people communicate. But I think it's important... for everyone to be open to learn sign language.

Look, we all make mistakes. That is no problem. But you have to be willing to make up for your mistakes and to help yourself.

I have no problems with the homosexuality out there.

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

Visiting other places changes your perspective. It helps you understand that no matter where you are, or what country you're in, people are pretty much the same everywhere.

The bee doesn't care about me, or what I just did to her," I said. "She was just trying to protect herself. Now that the threat is gone, she doesn't hold a grudge.

You need to learn to forgive yourself first.

I wanted easy banter and deep communication and long periods when neither of us felt the need to say anything at all. (p. 168, Trevor Benson)

En momentos de pena y sufrimiento, te abrazaré y te reconfortaré, tomaré tu tristeza y la haré mía. Cuando llores, yo también lloraré, y cuando te sientas herida, yo me sentiré igual. Y juntos intentaremos controlar la marea de lágrimas y desesperación para seguir avanzando y sorteando las accidentadas sendas de la vida.

What is true love?. To love means to care more for the happiness of another person for your own, regardless of the painful choices you have to make to achieve it

Understanding others meant understanding yourself—

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

Jane is outgoing and kind, with a natural empathy that endears her to others. She