Quotes About Empathy

Another trembling leaf, eh? Well, it happens. She'll get over it." Sergeant Marge isn't exactly the warm and fuzzy type.

I know I make too many assumptions. I know I need to stop thinking the worst every time I don't understand something. I'm really, truly sorry....

Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend

The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner.

don't like that man. I must get to know him better. —Abraham Lincoln

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living. —Albus Dumbledore

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. —Aesop

Only do what your heart tells you. —Princess Diana

They wanted me to stay because they wanted me around: I was their direct link to Sam; I was his memento. And they were probably afraid that I might shoot myself, left alone with all Sam's things.

For a long time, I felt like I was living a closeted life, hiding what seemed most real to me from the rest of the world...I feel incredibly grateful to all those who have entrusted me with their own deeply personal stories of creative awakening.

People are people,"..."You can fall in love with either sex- it's the *person* who makes the difference. His or her spectacular insides.

You can't tell people what to be, I'm afraid," said Rosie. "You can only love and support who they already are.

That's what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard.

You have to help him see that if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in. He has to see how 'You shouldn't push even though you want to' isn't the same as 'You shouldn't wear a dress even though you want to.

That's what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard. Otherwise, what's the point of stories?

You can't tell people what to be, I'm afraid," said Rosie. "You can only love and support who they already are. But

You have to help him unlearn it. You have to help him see that if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in.

that was how Penn lost the argument regardless because of course you could uproot a whole family of seven for the needs of just one of them because that's what family means.

Children learn many wonderful things in kindergarten. How to line up for lunch. How to use inside voices. How to not push people. Important life skills for sure. I use them every day myself. But they learn other things too: you have to conform, or people might not like you; you have to be the same because different doesn't feel good. At home, Claude's loved no matter what. At school, it sometimes feels the opposite: you are not loved no matter what.

Tears crawled out of Claude's eyes and nose, and besides he was only five, but he tried to comfort his parents anyway. 'I just feel a little bit sad. Sad isn't bleeding. Sad is okay.

intricate motives, and complicated plots intimately. You live a book for weeks at a time, carrying it around in your bag, thinking about its characters like friends, worrying about their worries as your own. Not so short stories because as soon as you get to know the characters and voices and plots and complications, they're over. Resolved or unresolved, clear or still completely obfuscated, either way, there's nothing more . . . unless you're

You could sit down with another mom, even one halfway around the world whose life was very different from your own, and find easy conversation, shared spirit,

Ce anume ne lipse?te de la cei dragi pe care îi cunoa?tem atât de bine,încât am putea s? termin?m frazele în locul lor ?i s? gândim gândurile lor negândite?

That's what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard. Otherwise, what's the point of stories? They want to help little boys go to sleep. They want to help stubborn mamas fall in love with dads. They want to teach people things and make them laugh and cry.