Quotes About Empathy

If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

But they hadn't seen the expression on Adam's face that day. Forgiveness just wasn't an option, not in this case. Anyway, that really wasn't the point. She didn't want forgiveness. All Leonie ever wanted was for Adam to know that she'd never meant to hurt him, and if she managed that, it would be enough.

Sometimes having a good imagination really stinks, Jenna thought.

And suddenly I started to cry. Serious sobs, the kind where your stomach hurts and you can't breathe and there's snot running down your face. I was crying so hard I couldn't even mute the sounds I was making, and Luke put his hand on my back and I thought about how everyone would think that I was crying because of Stacy's fucking speech and I wanted to kill someone. I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.

Keenan] 'What am I going to do?' He sank to the floor. [Donia] 'Hope that some of us are kinder to you than you've been to us,' she whispered. Then, before she could soften again, she walked away and left the Summer King kneeling in her foyer.

And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.

Loving someone meant letting them be who they were, not caging them

good people deserve help

Family isn't only blood.

I see humanity's flaws, but I see the goodness too.

Place had an ill or special needs sibling and needed time together with others in the same situation.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

It's amazing the things you realize when you lose someone: you get mad at yourself for not saying the things you could've a million times, you take for granted the days spent doing nothing when you could have been with them. Anyone can be taken, at any time in our lives, but we always wait until they're gone to say the things we never had the courage to before.

if you want to have a good friend, you first must be a good friend.

The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.

We have been given two ears but a single mouth, in order that we may hear more and speak less.

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

This is living, not to live unto oneself alone.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.