Quotes About Empathy

How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best

Noble words, my friend; you can't drink them or wrap them around your feet or burn them in your firepit or give them to children crying in hunger......They will cry for a month, then they will eat his share of the food. And wouldn't he want it that way?

People will forgive a penitent enemy before they forgive a professed friend.

When I delved deeper, Shannon admitted that she had tried the controlled crying method "once or twice" over the last several months but gave it up because "it never worked." Each time Shannon had done a complete 180-degree turn on her daughter. She'd left her to cry it out, and then started to pick her up again.

This is why I love poems: they invite me to sit down and listen to a voice speaking thoughtfully and passionately about what it feels like to be alive.

Sometimes telling what happened, in whatever way you can, is a means of lightening your burden. It summons others to help you bear the weight of your own story, so that you might finally get out from under it.

This is why I love poems: they require me to sit still, listen deeply, and imagine putting myself in someone else's unfamiliar shoes. The world I return to when the poem is over seems fuller and more comprehensible as a result.

And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

BILL: Please, sweetheart, we need to know what went on here. JEAN: Nothing "went on." Can we just not make a federal case out of everything?

You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

The secret to winning this culture game is to treat others how they want to be treated, not how you would want to be treated.

Social awareness is your ability to accurately pick up on emotions in other people and understand what is really going on with them.

It's the best thing in the world to save a life, no matter whose it is.

For just this moment, he wanted her to see him for who he was, without the pity he knew she'd feel when she found out the truth.

Guys can't tell girls what to do. That's an unspoken rule. Learn that now and you'll be way ahead of the game.

Strange as it might seem, it made Reuben feel closer to his mom, and he was sure she felt the same way, though they'd never discussed it. Talking about it might ruin the effect.

Reynie had helped Constance with her mittens (she was close to tears trying to get her thumbs in their places)

Rhonda patted Number Two's shoulder. "Number Two is a bit testy about this. She was often ignored as a child." "That doesn't change the truth!" Number Two snarled. "Easy now," said Rhonda. "Only teasing." "Sorry. Blood sugar's low," said Number Two, hastily unwrapping a granola bar.

Poor Kate," said Constance, "she's lost her marbles.