Quotes About Empathy

If you never share the worst thing you've ever done with a single person, if you just carry it all by yourself, maybe it comes between you and everyone you meet, even if it's years later.

Maybe love comes in at the eyes, but not nearly as much as it comes in at the ears...

Not tailgating acknowledges the mystery and humanity of strangers. It's one of those small habits that speaks volumes.

Leaning on a cane, with a book tucked under her free arm, she navigated carefully across the grass, her eyes on the ground, and then just as she got to where we sat, she raised her head - her white hairs starry as dandelion fluff in the morning sun - and smiled at me. "Courage, dear heart," she said in a ringing, surprisingly young voice, then dropped her eyes and walked on.

Never, ever lie, unless it's to spare someone's feelings or to weasel out of something you really don't want to do, but only if not doing that something will not result in bodily or even psychic harm to another human being, unless that human being is exceptionally mean in which case minor psychic harm is permissible"—my

Dev felt suddenly ashamed of himself for what he'd thought earlier, back in the car, that Lyssa should keep her craziness to herself, that having to feel compassion for a messed-up, hurting person was annoying and unfair.

too. Like I'm an outside person watching me do things. Except when I'm with you. Then, I'm on the inside.

When I pointed to the list, he read it quickly, then said, "I wish I'd known what was happening. I wish she'd told me," so ruefully that I wanted to touch him and did.

She could imagine sustaining certain emotions at that pitch for that long—love absolutely, grief probably, guilt maybe—but hatred was exhausting and gave so little back.

Lo que me pase a mí no me importa. ¿O usted cree que después de la vida que llevé me va a asustar estar en una cárcel, con otras infelices como yo?" Juana fue condenada a nueve años de prisión.

What right did she have to take photographs of strangers? But she knew these faces....These people had been made to feel inadequate, abnormal. Their lives were disfigured by circumstance.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it's your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can

I can't change Mr. L., but I can change how I think of him. If I don't care about his opinion, his insults can't hurt me.

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.

Dis seker hoekom mens 'n beste vriendin moet hê, dink ek terwyl ek saam haar stap. Om jou hand vas te hou as jy uitmekaarval

We're each on our own tightrope. All we can do is pick one another up after we fall.

Kindness is the currency of humanity. Even in the camps one found it. Debased and broken, but one found it.

Thor was watching them. 'Gretchen says what we both think,' Thor said quietly.

You don't know nothing about me. Or the life I've had. You're so quick to judge, like all the other women. Women are the worst, you know. Worse than men. I think it's because, secretly, they all know in their hearts they could be me.

Kindness is the currency of humanity.

The art of pleasing is to know what people want even before they want it.

In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.