Quotes About Empathy

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.

Love wants the best for others. Attachment takes hostages.

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

In my experience people who have been hurt either pass it on and become abusive themselves or they develop a great kindness.

It's so easy to get mired in the all too obvious cruelty of the world. It's natural. But to really heal, we need to recognize the goodness too.

I've been desperately unhappy in my life." Her voice was quiet. "Have you, Chief Inspector?" It wasn't a response he could have predicted. He nodded. "I thought so. I think people who have had that experience and survived have a responsibility to help others. We can't let someone drown where we were saved.

People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of the stories as real, and some as fiction. But she honored them all, though she didn't buy every one.

Is it true? Is it kind? Does it need to be said?

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

When someone shoots at us, we return fire," said Jean-Guy. Now Jacques did nod. "But it's equally important that when someone is kind to us, we return that as well,

Gamache was the best of them, the smartest and bravest and strongest because he was willing to go into his own head alone, and open all the doors there, and enter all the dark rooms. And make friends with what he found there.

Be careful. You're making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won't lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite.

the pain of neuralgia…she knew what they thought. That she was cold. Couldn't feel. But in fact she felt too much. Too deeply.

His heart filled his chest and ran to the end of his tail and the very tips of his considerable ears. It filled his head, squeezing out his brain. But Henri, the foundling, was a humanist, and while not particularly clever was the smartest creature Gamache knew. Everything he knew he knew by heart.

He was an emotional communist. Everyone counted equally, but none too much.

He had loads of colleagues, acquaintances, buddies. He was an emotional communist. Everyone counted equally, but none too much.

It's too easy to feed the anger. Too cowardly to stoke the hate. You must look inside yourself and decide who you are and who you want to be. Character is not created in times like these. It's revealed. This is a trying time. A testing time. Be careful." Chapter 14 · Page 122 · Location 2188

But you knew what would happen. Why would you choose to walk right into a situation where you know the person is going to be hurtful? It kills me to see you do that, and you do it all the time. It's like a form of insanity. - Peter Morrow You call it insanity, I call it optimism. - Clara Morrow

It was no use telling her he understood. Or that it was all right. She'd earned the right to no easy answer.

That was why she was happy. He now knew that happiness and kindness went together. There was not one without the other.

Quote from Louise Penny a Canadian author. Wrote "How The Light Gets In" from an interview. "Having started as a voracious reader (and I still am), I know that reading is as creative as writing. The writer suggests, creates a character, a setting, an atmosphere. But it's the reader who brings it alive. Walks with the characters, sees the world, smells the wood smoke, tastes the café au lait and feels the biting cold on the tender cheek

He often said that words told them what someone was thinking, but the tone told them how they felt.

Good hearts get hurt. Good hearts get broken, Armand. And then they lash out.