Quotes About Empathy

I am demonized because I don't see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person's heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?

most relationship issues are solved with one thing: setting boundaries. See the problem for what it is, set a boundary, and follow through despite how hard the person tries to break the boundary and how much it hurts to hold fast.

Seems to me that most relationship issues are solved with one thing: setting boundaries. See the problem for what it is, set a boundary, and follow through despite how hard the person tries to break the boundary and how much it hurts to hold fast.

poor Jan alone. When she noticed I was seriously date-delayed, Christine started trying

We all need to be seen, appreciated, encouraged, validated, listened to. And whether or not we've been lucky enough to get that from other people when we needed it, we can be that person for others, which in a way allows us to be that person we needed for ourselves. When we share our time and creativity, our life and story become entwined with the lives and the stories we touch.

I have a lot of sympathy for Gollum. By Claire Davis, author

That was true, at least. He cared about Felicity—he just didn't understand her.

Sometimes, we have to give birth to our children twice....Once your child becomes the "garbage" other parents are afraid of, you never look at any teen, or yourself, the same again. All you see is the child they once were.

Neden ?efkat, yaralanmaktan daha çok incitir insan??

The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been – which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life. Whatever suffering he was now to meet was a long way from what the girl at his side had already endured, and might yet surpass.

He has never understood the human compulsion for conversation: people, when they speak, say useless things that seldom if ever improve their lives. Their words make them sad. Why can't people stop talking and embrace each other?

She puts her arm around me. 'You're just too young to understand.' As soon as she says this, I realise she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.

People can have nothing but good intentions and still sometimes make you want to kill them.

If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn't 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but 'Is this character alive?'

Therese looked in vain, even for the dangling string. "Why did you do it?" Her voice was shrill with tears. "It was such a beautiful kite!" "It's only a kite!" Richard repeated. "I can make another kite!

My mother told me early that whatever happens to you, however unhappy you may be, you can escape into a book.

When desperately concerned with our own affairs, it is not easy for any one of us to be interested in a neighbor's new stereo.

However if you wish unhappiness on someone else then the very strength of that wish will make you unhappy.

Because I wished for everyone to live, I did everything I could.

Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san

Yuuko, speaking to Fai: To all the young ones in your group, you are no longer someone who passes through their lives and is forgotten. You have become someone very important to them. Your hardships are their hardships too.

encourages them to overlook behavior that needs overlooking. In autism, that's important. Yet

A description of autism must be anecdotal; without anecdotes there are words but not experience.

He that would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars," wrote William Blake.