Quotes About Empathy

It's easy to learn who your real friends are after an accident

Sometimes you love someone who can't give you what you want, so what can you do but love them enough to let them go?

the middle child's classic tendency to withdraw.

Silence is the cruelest means of rejection, even if it only masks confusion or regret. The

I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.

We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.

Why do you even put up with me?' 'I'm not putting up with you,' he said, softly. 'I'm loving you.

You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.

That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us.

No emotion is more squirmy than feeling embarrassed for someone else

I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity

All this girl-on-girl hate is exhausting. Sometimes I wish we could dose on testosterone, punch each other in the face, and get it over with already.

I know she's young, but she's old enough to know that such blatant bumpwatching is just about the rudest thing you can do to someone in my concave condition.

Because I know you.

We are being called to a new and deeper passion: to those who live under the shadow of the cross and those most in need of compassion. Then we become mothers of God, sisters and brothers of Jesus, the loved disciples born in the blood of the Cross and fed on the Word of God.

Scream silently in your prayer; remember the pain of others.

It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don't have to do it all alone. We should practice on the small stuff so that we will be better able to stand together for what we believe and for what we love, who may someday need our support.

When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another no longer bothers us, nor moves us to remedy the situation and stop the pain, then we have lost a part of our own humanity, our own soul.

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.

Each confrontation between Jesus and another person or group reveals what we do to each other, personally and on a public level. Each is an indictment against Christians, followers of the man crucified, the suffering servant, the Lamb of God.

And the two of us eat in silence. But it's not the empty kind of quiet.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

You can't fight tribalism with a tribe. All you can do is read and think and listen. And if you're lucky, eventually will come that rousing, fleeting moment when you hear someone say the thing that makes you feel less alone.