Quotes About Empathy

Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.

When did we stop being people, being human?

Who did it, Sephy?' She repeated. 'Who beat you up? 'Cause whoever it was, I'll kill them.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

What was it about the differences in others that scared some people so much?

Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

Her life was her major disappointment, her mistakes carved into every premature line in her face, but I wasn't going to let her use my life as her second chance.

Sephy told me once that I was the only one who could make her cry. I've never told this to her, or to anyone else for the matter, but it works the other way round as well." — callum mcgregor/noughts&crosses

Don't hate me for wanting to change the way things are. I believe in you, Callum. You can change the world, I know you can. But not like this, I'm not trying to be magnanimous or patronizing. I genuinely want to help but...

Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

Us noughts and you Crosses.' I shook my head. 'It makes it sound like … like you're in one place and I'm in another, with a huge, great wall between us.

Maybe we are in different places …' 'No, we aren't. Not if we don't want to be, we aren't.' I willed Callum to look at me. 'I wish it was that simple.' 'It is.

A word Dad had used. But it was a word that had hurt my best friend. A word that was now hurting me so very, very much. I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this.

Only one person cared if I lived or died. He'd done so much for me in the past and now it was my turn to do something for him.

She treated me like a real person. She didn't see me as just a colour

That is, after all, how it works. We don't come here with hatred in our hearts. We have to be taught to feel that way. We have to want to be that way, to please the people who teach us to want to be like them. Strange, to think that people might learn to hate as a way of getting some approval, some acceptance, some love. I thought about all that

Strong women don't merely birth children. They cultivate them to render service.

We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice.

We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.

He ran his hand into her long, brown hair and then caressed her cheek. She was so beautiful and so broken. He understood broken. He related to it like no other could. He'd spent his life in a constant state of falling to pieces, held together by sheer willpower and luck. Deep down he knew they were right for one another. That two brokens could make a whole.

Wenn Gott die Welt, die ganze abgefallene Kreatur geliebt hat, dann hat er uns keinen Vorzug vor anderen gegeben. Er hat meinen schlimmsten Feind nicht weniger geliebt als mich.

1. September Wenn wir nicht den Mut haben, wieder ein echtes Gefühl für menschliche Distanzen aufzurichten und darum persönlich zu kämpfen, dann kommen wir in einer Anarchie menschlicher Werte um.

Jesu Liebe, das ist die Liebe, die keinen Schmerz, keinen Verzicht, kein Leiden scheut, wenn es dem anderen hilft.