Quotes About Empathy

A loving couple will say things to each other - you know, Danny - just to make each other feel good about a situation, even if the situation isn't good, or it they shouldn't feel good about i, Ketchum said. A loving couple will make up their own rules, as if these made-up rules were as reliable or counted for as much as the rules everyone else tried to live by - if you know what I mean.

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

Candy took the bathing suit from her and used the suit to wipe the tears from Rose Rose's face. You're fine, you're just fine, Candy said to the girl. And you're going to feel better. No one's going to hurt you.

When somebody touches you...and you really don't wanna be touched, that's not really being touched. You still got you inside of you. And nobody has touched you. Not really. You still got you inside of you. You believe that.

Reading good novels can make young readers seem more experienced about relationships than they are.

You should listen to these people, Farrokh," his father was telling him. "It isn't necessary for them to be your moral equals in order for you to learn something from them.

Grief is contagious," Marion began again. "I didn't want you to catch my grief, Eddie. I really didn't want Ruth to catch it.

I know what's fair, Helen said. I also know what's human

That poor girl wasn't a girl," Señor Eduardo said; he'd glanced once at Lupe, asleep in his lap, just to be sure she was still sleeping. "That poor girl was Flor

Come amiamo amar le cose per conto di altri! Come amiamo che altri amino le cose tramite i nostri occhi

In the company of grown women among whom Jack remembered being a little boy, he was again a child.

If you can't forgive your mother, Jack, you'll never be free of her. It's for your own sake, you know – for your soul. When you forgive someone who's hurt you, it's like escaping your skin – you're that free, outside yourself, where you can see everything.

rape, Garp thought, made men feel guilty by association.

If you're not prepared to watch me die, you'll be worthless to me when the time comes.

È un buon segno piangere per un romanzo» mi assicurò Miss Frost. «Un buon segno?» «Significa che hai più cuore della maggior parte dei tuoi coetanei.»

Such a warm washcloth kind of sympathy was leaking from Dr. Gingrich that Larch felt wet—

Franny was awful to him, but Franny was not awful; and Frank was not really awful to any of us, except he (himself) was, somehow, awful.

I've done all I want to do about me, already," Jenny told her son. "Now I'm interested in other people.

Er Schrieb an Helen, dass Jungsein zum Teil auch aus dem Gefühl besteht, dass es niemanden gibt, der dir genug ähnelt um dich zu verstehen

Quoting Kurt Vonnegut: Free Enterprise is much too hard on the old and the sick and the shy and the poor and the stupid, and on people nobody likes.

What woman wants to hear someone say what her husband is thinking? What guy is going to be happy hearing what's on his wife's mind?

Owen and I were eleven; we had no other way to articulate what we felt about what had happened to my mother. He gave me his baseball cards, but he really wanted them back, and I gave him my stuffed armadillo, which I certainly hoped he'd give back to me—all because it was impossible for us to say to each other how we really felt. How did it feel to hit a ball that hard—and then realize that the ball had killed your best friend's mother?

A cripple's life is one of watching others do what he can't do

Did having a dog make you less political?