Quotes About Empathy

Nothing a recovering addict likes more than a tale of how bad it had been in the old days, and how low a fellow addict had sunk.

Not that she was a know-it-all—it didn't seem to be an ego thing with her. She just assumed that everybody shared her desire for everybody to be clear on everything, and she'd expect you to do the same for her.

she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else.

shake him up. Get him out of his comfort zone so he could stop sneering at everybody else who was out of theirs. Get him thinking about something besides his own neuroses for a change.

Utangaç insanlar?n ?zd?rab?, haklar?nda olu?an dü?ünceyi bilmemekten kaynaklan?r; bu dü?ünce -ne olursa olsun- aç?kça ifade edilir edilmez ?zd?rap sona erer.

Egli la guardava, come l'uomo guarda il fiore da lui strappato e appassito, in cui riconosce con difficoltà la bellezza per la quale l'ha strappato e rovinato.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

It takes just as much energy to be an asshole as it does to be kind.

In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.

You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

I thought it was always safe to do right. The Bible, in bidding us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, said nothing about color, and I should try to follow out the teachings of that good book.

My mom, God love her, she was one of those Bible people. She thought it was wrong to bother anybody, regardless of race, color or religion. It just wasn't a Christian thing to look down on anybody, and that's what she taught us.

Christ, will I ever find someone who is not crying inside?

Love will save every life it comes in contact with.

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..."

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt one, those who keep silence hurt more. They help to increase the sense of general isolation which makes a sort of fringe to the sorrow itself.

Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.