Quotes About Empathy

here." "Yeah," she said, as tears rolled down her cheeks again, "and you love Liz too. I could see it." She started to sob then and buried her face in his

forgives me my mistakes. Even in the same family, they're very different people. And it's a miracle if you get it right even some of the time, no matter how hard you try.

had some form of Asperger's, although there

You just do the best you can and love them a lot, no matter what." And let them go when it was time, which was the hardest of all.

generous statement

Estéril es la persona que no puede amar, que no puede dar nada, que vive encerrada en sí misma. Todo eso es lo que importa y nada de eso eres tú, Sam. Tú no eres así.

thinking how hard it must be to be a woman, always having to be strong and comfort others, and how lonely it was to be a man. —

She was starving for friendship.

Et alors que je les regardais faire, que je rencontrais leurs regards, que je touchais leurs mains, j'ai cessé d'avoir peur pour ne plus ressentir qu'une profonde humilité face à leur chaleur et à leur humanité. J'eus soudain honte de la mauvaise opinion que j'avais eue d'eux des années durant. Ce fut un des moments les plus marquants de ma vie.

I thought about volunteering at the convalescent home here, but it sounds so depressing, talking to old people with dementia

The people who know you well are the people who know your vulnerabilities.

to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression.

lot of getting along with other people is more about making a decision that you want to get along and then doing whatever is necessary to keep the peace.

Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.

There's no such thing as a problem that's yours and not mine.

Doing things for someone else is what I love most about relationships, even more than having stuff done for me.

I wasn't expecting him to light candles or scatter rose petals. But I just made myself infertile for him, so the least he could've done was make the bed.

But recalling how my ex had nasty BO after track practice never made me feel better. It seemed disingenuous to hold things against him that before I readily accepted as the price of love.

Nothing bonds people more than going through sh_t together, right?

I hate how it's so much easier to be open and straightforward to a computer screen than to an actual person.

There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men ho cares only about their own beliefs and nothing about the faith or feelings of others-- even when it pains him to the very core of his spirit