Quotes About Empathy

Her best friend is me; her second-best friend is herself.

He knows what will upset me before it even happens and like a superhero, bends the track of the runaway train before it strikes.

He doesn't look people in the eye. He says that's how someone can steal your soul.

Because it takes more strength to change someone else's life than it takes to change your own.

I tell them that there is nothing more selfish than trying to change someone's mind because they don't think like you. Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected. I

Could you love someone so much that, even without meaning to, you hurt them?

I don't really understand this. When you have so many people, each one inevitably fascinating, why would you limit yourself to only those like you?

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

There are building blocks of love and the very bottom layer is comfort. (from Vanishing Acts)

The thing that's important to remember about PTSD is that a traumatic event affects different people differently.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so. In fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities they only dreamed of.

This is why I never told my story... If you lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it. And if you didn't, you will never understand..

Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, Dr. King had said, what are you doing for others?

Sage shakes her head. "Surely there were some Germans who were better than others, some who didn't want to go along with what Hitler said. If you can't see them as individuals—if you can't forgive the ones who ask for it—doesn't that make you just as bad as any Nazi?""No," I admit. "It makes me human.

Me, I like him because of one of Rocco's other things: he doesn't look people in the eye. He says that's how someone can steal your soul.

I eat kung pao chicken like it's going out of style, but I'm pretty sure I don't have an Asian cell in my body. I love Toni Morrison novels although I'm not black. I'm straight and I'm happily married. The reason I work here is because I think you deserve that, too.

My sister's in pain, and I'm relieved. What does that say about me?

that allows us to have compassion for strangers. Yes, the Nazis made Jews the scapegoats, to the point of near extinction. But that same bit of tissue in the mind is what led others to send money and supplies and relief, even when they were half a world away.

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a strangehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future

But I'm even more cautious with the white ones in the pickup trucks with Confederate flags hanging in the back windows. Because I used to be who they are, and I know what they are capable of.

He was the kind of dog whose heart was too big for his own body, and so he continuously offered it up to me.