Quotes About Empathy

Think instead about children. People. Human beings. Feel for once that education is about people—not figures.

My life did not really begin until I summoned the power to forgive my father for making my childhood a long march of terror.

When you have been hurt you lose your trust in the world. If the world's mean to you when you're a child, you spend the rest of your life being mean back.

No one has the patent on human suffering. People hurt in different ways and for different reasons.

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

La única palabra que describe la bondad es bondad, y no es bastante.

You're worried about your mother dying, aren't you," Leah said, putting her cheek on my forearm. "I can tell." For a moment I hesitated, but I could hear the call for intimacy in her voice, the desire for me to let her enter those grottoes where I tended my own fear of my mother's illness.

Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves.

let them feel the hurt and sorrow of history.

had the heart of a socialist and the soul of a missionary

the sadness in her voice touched a deep place within me.

through her

I was being cynical. I'm sorry. It's a family habit I've fallen prey to.

By not being able to tell me anything about themselves, they were telling me everything.

not being able to tell me anything about themselves, they were telling me everything.

No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an arm or a leg blown off, and for days, even weeks after it happened, they could still feel the arm itching, the leg itching, the mother calling.

High performance teams master the art of straight talk. They have learned how to confront issues and address behaviors without attacking or provoking one another.

A truly humble person won't try to impress you, manipulate you, judge you, criticize you, or put you in your place. Humble people are safe to be around. You can relax. You can be yourself.

Be happy for those who are happy, be compassionate toward those who are unhappy, be delighted for those who are virtuous, and be indifferent toward the wicked.

I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and you know that for some things there is no comfort.

But you had a right to be angry." "Yes. But not to hurt those I love, or myself.

I need you to forgive me. And then perhaps I can begin to forgive myself. There is no one but you who can do that either.

He is not here to help me with this; you must take his place.' Ducon started to speak, faltered. He stared at her, the bruise on his face suddenly vivid against his pallor, as if she had struck him.

Coren's arms tightened around the child. "It is Norrel's son—it is not an animal.