Quotes About Empathy

Humans were neither all good nor all bad—they were just human and fallible, herself included.

Even though he wasn't always considerate of her, would another man be any different?

Maybe instead of worrying about Shelly's marriage, she should examine her own.

Then you have to figure out how to reach her. Find out if you're truly compatible. You can love someone, but not have the same values or be able to live with them." She paused, then added, "For many reasons.

divisiveness

When you understand a prickly person's history, you develop compassion for them.

People sometimes made mistakes when they felt overburdened. Maybe they drank too much, slept with the wrong person, yelled at loved ones. Or screamed at people on social media. A fan of cool sea spray misted her face, and she realized that mistakes were all part of being human. Jeremy hadn't been a saint, any more than she was. If she'd had better relationship skills, she might have diffused Sunny's anger and

nobody really knows how anybody else feels - you may think you are feeling as a woman, or as a man, but you may simply be feeling as yourself.

The most important thing, I believe, about books for babies and very young children is that they are shared between the child and a caring adult. It is time for physical closeness and comfort, of quiet and harmony, of sharing ideas and emotions, laughing and learning together. The learning and benefit that take place are not only enjoyed by the child. Any adult who takes time to share books with small children will be rewarded, enriched, and revitalized by it, every time.

The capacity for affection is the best part of humankind.

The unfortunate ones of the world were subjected to a more lingering torment, and the fortunate ones were merely condemned to watch it from a front seat, unwilling tricoteuses at an execution they were powerless to prevent. The least they could do was not to turn away their eyes; for with such a picture stamped upon the retina of their memory they would not be able to lie easy until they had done their best to ensure that it could never happen again.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. — MOTHER TERESA

A soft answer turns away wrath and a gentle tongue is the tree of life, but a snarky Twitter Bible only leads to trouble.

I keep in mind what Ann Dunnewold told me: when a mother takes care of herself, children absorb important lessons. "Both boys and girls learn that mothers have needs, too, which is also very important if they have children of their own," she says. If you must conquer guilt, she adds, tell yourself, 'When I take time for myself, I come back and I'm more the mother I want to be. More patient. Less reactive.

If you're yelling and calling names, your kid thinks, 'If I get in a disagreement, the way to resolve it is to speak more forcefully, more loudly, and to say harsher things to get my way.

But stranger than any episode was the fact itself that neither the convict, his wife, nor his godfather for a moment considered him a criminal. He had merely gotten excited over cards and had stabbed his adversary with a knife. Why should a man who took his luck badly be kept forever from the sun? was their reiterated inquiry.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, said Darcy, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.