Quotes About Empathy

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.

He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt.

I would fight the world for you, but I'm damned if I can figure out how to save you from yourself.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

I wondered if we could ever truly understand each other, and if not, did it matter? Maybe that was where we had been going wrong all this time, always trying to understand, to make sense, to control, to fit Iran into our own frame of reference, instead of simply accepting?

We've all got disabilities. It's just that sometimes they're hidden.

If you love someone, you owe it to them to listen to what they have to say just as they owe it to you to do the same.

Meanness of spirit has no place in disagreements. It all boils down to how you love others.

Love is cruel, but it beats hate by a long shot, kiddos.

L'humanité souffre. Et je souffre avec elle.

Okay. Sorry," she mumbles. I move to the edge of the bed and peer into her face, looking for a sign of anything I can reason with. Her pale blue eyes are smoky, vacant.

His heart and his brain were utterly foreign to all vindictiveness or personal bitterness. He declared himself hotly and strongly against wrong causes, but never against men.

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

By nature I am not tough, believe it or not. I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer.

I don't look at people and see color and race. I see inside.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

The busy have no time for tears.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.