Quotes About Empathy

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

Dat had always told her that whenever you got angry at another person, it was an opportunity to take a glimpse of your own faults.

we should instead ask God to break our hearts with the things that break His.

Too often we parents make assumptions about our children's actions and motives. We lecture instead of listening. We always have an answer, instead of stopping to listen.2

Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

you and I are close, we intertwine; you may stand on the other side of the hill once in awhile, but you may also be me while remaining what you are and what I am not.

Tips for Southern Visitors, No. 5 People will be quite kind to you when they realise you are from the South, because you can't help it.

I'm terribly sorry, Fergal." "What for? Marrying him? I should think you would be, Angel.

I'm terribly sorry, Fergal!' 'What for? I'm beginning to feel as if it's mine, too!

learn to accept that you are going to be responsible for many of your children's tears.

Always be kind, you never know what someone is going through. Whether it's words of encouragement or simple gestures to show appreciation. Remember, all supports goes a long way. Some things may not mean much to you but the world to someone else.

Take a break and give yourself enough time to heal. You cannot allow their hurt to change you or cause you to become bitter.

More important though—live for others, just as much as for yourself. If you do that, their strength becomes, in some mysterious way, yours. There is always somebody, somewhere, who needs you. Never, for one minute, ever lose sight of that. If they are not with you, not near you now—go and find them, even if it means voyaging thousands of miles to do it.

Take inventory. Invent a story about the people you have hurt. Begin with yourself.

How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?

He liked the idea that if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support.

Injustice alway captures the attention of the young," she said. "But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.

Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind

He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

They carry their past in them as though safekeeping it for someone else. Very often they look at me and say, poor thing. They say I have lost a mother and am alone in the world. They feel compassion for me, for a loss that comes to all; they disregard their own extraordinary suffering.

How is it possible to protect your loved ones from old heartaches?

She believes that having somebody, to be something to somebody, will balance or make the contrarieties of life easier.