Quotes About Empathy

She was so endearing, so indomitable, that Gabriel was wrenched with a feeling he'd never known before, as if all the extremes of joy and despair had been compressed into some new emotion that threatened to crack the walls of his heart.

Most of the time when couples argue, it's not really about the thing they're fighting about; there's a deeper reason why they're arguing.

She heard the trace of fear in his voice. The fear that a small boy must have felt when every woman he loved had disappeared from his life, swept away by a merciless fever. She didn't know how to reassure him, or how to console his long-ago grief.

Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.

When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.

Just because you don't understand or agree with something doesn't mean that it lacks merit.

Somehow I knew that no matter what I chose to tell or to keep secret, he would understand.

West paused. "My God, I can feel sincerity rising in my chest like a digestive disorder. I have to stop.

The baby woke up before you did. I took him to the other room to let you get a little more sleep. We've been watching a game." "Did he cry?" "Only when he realized the Astros were having another first-round play-off flame out. But I told him there's no shame in crying over the Astros. It's how we Houston guys bond.

True friends never mind holding your hair back while you cast up your crumpets.

Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relation-ships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike.

Take my advice, gadjo… never argue with a woman when she's in this state. Tell her you were wrong and you're sorry as hell. And promise never to do it again." "I'm still not exactly certain what I did," Harry said. "That doesn't matter. Apologize anyway." Merripen paused and added in a whisper, "And whenever your wife is angry… for God's sake, don't try logic." "I heard that," Win said from the chaise.

As she had once told Kathleen, sometimes one had to love something before it became lovable

I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation

Justine reached for a fresh tissue and clamped it to Lucy's nose as if she was a child. "Friends are the support bras of life. We don't let each other down. Right?

But life is what novels are about. A novel can contain more truth than a thousand newspaper articles or scientific papers. It can make you imagine, just for a little while, that you're someone else—and then you understand more about people who are different from you.

If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

The need has always been to be calm, humble and grounded, this is what I have learned from my community and these are my values.

I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back.

I stay away from negative relationships. They are energy-sapping vampires. I can't handle them.

I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.

If you mingle with real people, only then your craft can improve. I spend most of my time outside the vanity van, speaking to people. You never know what you can pick from a person.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.