Quotes About Empathy

It wasn't her fault

one thing I know about people from deep personal experience: they're happy to jump on the hate train if it makes them feel like fucking heroes.

Without forgiveness there is never any peace… My son gave his life. I wont reply to his gift with anger, not even for those who took it from me… How can hating them heal me?

We don't care about everyone… It isn't in our natures. We can only care about those we know, or those we are connected with.

Violence at a distance was still horrific and should be felt just as deeply.

it is not half so important to know as to feel

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.

Beauty's not only skin deep. Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world. (Gabriel)

I feel like you may be a special and kind person. And I would like to make it my business to know special and kind people. Especially if they are boys my age.

I felt especially grateful now having the red Moleskine to confide in. Just knowing a Snarl was on the other side to read it—to possibly care—inspired my pen to move quickly in answer to his question.

Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?

My pinky finger crept over and nestled against his, for comfort. Like a magnet, his pinky finger latched onto and intertwined with mine. I like magnets a whole lot.

To be the right person at the right time for someone else is the highest service we can perform

I started to write: Langston deserves to be sick. But I erased that and wrote, Okay. I'll make him some.

To be the right person at the right time for someone else is the highest service we can perform," Sir Ian said with a bow.

Nick is right, the Olsen twins do have a worrisome co-dependent relationship. I understand those bitches, though, I really do.

It's moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

Kent State by Deborah Wiles

You don't feel like a stranger to me.   I wanted to ask her, What does a stranger feel like? Not to be snarky or sarcastic. Because I really wanted to know if there was a difference, if there was a way to become truly knowable, if there wasn't always something keeping you a stranger, even to the people you weren't strange to at all. I

Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books." "And escape?

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around"? From Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road

I always made it my mission to like him, because somebody has to like the people no one else likes or the world would just be hopeless. And the best way to extract holiday cheer, I've found, is to spend time with the most curmudgeonly person you know , and their grump can't help but force you into feeling good, because it gives you perspective and balance.