Quotes About Empathy

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to foresee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

People don't abandon people they love. People abandon people they were using.

People who make others happy are usually the most broken ones.

Some days you're the dog, and some days you're the hydrant.

Some hearts understand each other even in silence.

Sometimes it takes a Stranger to Understand you

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings, but silence breaks your heart.

Strong people stand up for themselves, but stronger people stand up for others.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality interrupting others sarcasm vanity being a poor listener insincere flattery finding fault challenging others without good cause giving unsolicited advice complaining attitude of superiority envy of others' success poor posture and dress.

The right one will know all your weaknesses and never use them against you.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

There are times she is kneeling out of obedience, reverence and respect. Those are the times it is okay to stand above her. But when she is kneeling because the weight of the world is just too heavy to bear...that is when you should be kneeling beside her.

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

We are all instantly forgiven but in order to benefit from this forgiveness, we must in turn forgive others and ourselves.

What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.

Don't allow the unfair judgment of others make you judgmental in return.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

And what she wanted more than anything that moment was for all the differences between people to matter no more - differences in size and race and belief....

Given a choice, she would rather be the one who was persecuted than the one doing the persecuting-- both had a terrible price to pay, but she would rather endure humiliation and fear than grow numb to what it was to be human.

These are things," Trudi's father told her long before she was old enough for confession, "that the church calls sins, but they are part of being human. And those we need to embrace. The most important thing--" He paused. "--is to be kind.

Because of the people in history, Trudi felt a far stronger link than ever before to the people in her town, and from all this grew new stories, which she told to Eva and her father, and to Frau Abramowitz who listened to every word and sighed, "Trudi, you and your splendid imagination.