Quotes About Empathy

Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others.

If you can't control your own emotions, you're forced to control other people's behaviour. That's why the touchiest, most oversensitive and easily upset must not set the standard for the rest of us .

And yet he did genuinely love Cordelia. Not with any kind of physical love. That was impossible. But with a feeling of pity that shook the foundations of his nature.

It's as if we were both digging into each other's soul to find a self that was put there before we were born.

And he recalled what Jason Otter had said about pity: how if you had pity and there was one miserable consciousness left in the universe, you had no right to be happy.

Every human creature is a terror to every other human creature. Human minds are like unknown planets, encountering and colliding.

What was the use of having a father who could exorcise devils, who could give sleep to the tormented, if he could not heal his own child's wounded heart?

Every second of every day someone is going through the worst moments of their lives. If today's just an ordinary day for you, consider that to be a blessing.

Sometimes you have to hurt someone, to be able to help. - Spencer Hastings

In life if you can't have the mind to tolerates others you will find life so difficult to survive.

Once you realize you're not the only one going through this, then you'll remember to stay strong!

I want someone that understands me and all of my complexity.

I am convinced that we have to go through difficult, heartbreaking and emotional times to better understand who we are..from the inside out.

I have found in life, that the ones hardest to love are really the ones needing the most.

I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.

There's nothing wrong with showing you care for someone. What's wrong is expecting them to do the same.

You know exactly what to say to piss me off and exactly what to do to make me smile.

You don't like when I get jealous, so you must wanting me to stopping caring about us?

I'm not actually mad at you, I just want you to care..

This is not complicated: just let Love have its way with everything.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart

Relationship problems could be as complicated as math, but every one of us has to create our own method to solve them.

Fast replies makes me feel like you actually want to talk to me, but slow replies makes me think you're actually talking to someone better.

I'm already hating myself at a single-on-Valentine's-Day level.