Quotes About Empathy

Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.

Once you have made up your mind to drop a person it is most inconsiderate of them not to come within dropping distance.

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It's a shame that compassion doesn't.

Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct

the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy and no reason at all. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognised, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

at it's best fiction is medicine.

Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years.

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

Riots come and go, wars come and go, but under the tumult, day after day, century after century, millions of people are doing nice things for one another, making sacrifices, mostly small things, but it's all those little kindnesses that hold civilization together, all those people who live quiet lives and never make the news.

In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should.

Storytelling can heal broken hearts and damaged minds.

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

It is the purpose for which we exist. This reckless caring.

That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.

Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.