Quotes About Empathy

You can't blame someone if they honestly don't understand that their reality isn't the same as yours.

How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them, first, as human?

if there isn't a them, there can't be an us.

A bruise is how the body remembers it's been wronged.

No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.

Sara: You are so brave, I tell her, and then I smile. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. No Mommy, she says. You'd be sick.

Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

There are five things we need to say to people we love before they die…: I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Goodbye.

It takes two people to make a friendship work

It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

We Pisces, we're a special breed.

You don't look at another person's plate to see if they have more than you. You look to see if they have enough.

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: we take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. —NELSON MANDELA, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code...You don't love someone because they're perfect...You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

You saved me, I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. I had to, he said. So you could save me back.

The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.