Quotes About Empathy

Maybe this is how it goes, I think, watching Beth and Melanie, remembering the people I have loved, and the ones I wish I hadn't lost. Maybe we are all Beths, boarding other people's life journeys, or letting them hop aboard ours. For a while we ride together. A few minutes, a few miles. Companions on the road, sharing our air and our view, our feet swaying to the same beat. Then you get off at your stop, or I get off at mine. Unless we decide to stay on longer together.

Self-pity is a worse adversary than ignorance.

Love is when you care for somebody, and you be willing to go out of your way and do anything for that person, and to take care of that person, and if they have problems, that you can help them out any way you know how. If they sick, that you can bring 'em medicine, or give 'em a helping hand. That's what love is.

not thinking of what I can get, but thinking of what I can give

For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.

she took what she gave and she gave what she took, yes, but sometimes she gave just a little bit more – and that little bit more is the whole art of teaching, the whole art of living, in fact, and Miss Puddleton knew it.

Cuando dos poetas se conocen y se dan la mano por vez primera, es como si dos corrientes trasangélicas tropezaran, fundiéndose.

It is not human to be wise,' said Blood. 'It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy.

when teaching or parenting, you must always try to see things from the child's point of view and never use fear as a shortcut for education.

What horrifying torture this poor man must have endured. Out of a wise man they have made a miserable bundle of flesh and bones.

A lo largo de esa semana comprendió que los libros podían ser una tabla de salvación en un océano de silencio y pena.

All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

If we aren't here for one another, why are we here? - Grady Adams

Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. —Mark Twain

When I see those sad, abused and neglected animals on those commercials I feel despair for the human race. Too many people repay loyalty with faithlessness and give no thought to their own final hours when the might have to ask another to grant them the mercy that they withheld from those who trusted them.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

Sometimes he found it frustrating to be a sadist in an age when self-mutilation was all the rage

That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love…. —Emily Dickinson

First, it is a mistake to presume to know anyone's internal emotional landscape based on what external emotional signals they seem to be sending. Second, you can apologize for something you have done, but only a fool apologizes for things that other people have done, for he has no authority to do that.

Gradually, however, she revealed a frustration with the willful ignorance that is an abiding human trait, an indignation at the cruelty that people visit upon one another. She might see the world as hopeless, but she believed it did not have to remain that way.