Quotes About Empathy

Trying to look through someone's life is an equivalent of looking at the mirror. You see nothing but the reflected image of yourself

We can only share what we have at hand already.

If pain is too bad to be executed by everybody, and seen by everybody, is it not because it is too bad?

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Mi fanno pena le persone che sono sole unicamente nella stanza da bagno, e in nessun altro tempo e luogo.

It's loneliness that makes us terrible and hurtful human beings.

An emotional sort. As if there is any other kind of human.

Perhaps a woman has a different kind of measuring stick. For when it might be acceptable, or even necessary, to commit a murder.

She turned and walked a few steps, paused, then walked back to me. "You don't love him." Her face had utterly changed. From contained and still to wide-eyed and tremulous. "It would be bad enough if you did. But since you don't, please leave him to the person who does.

A man does like it when a woman tries, especially when she's foreign to him, as his wife had become the moment he'd decided to tell her he was leaving.

How difficult it is to walk through the world with your insides intact.

People can certainly be beastly about the things that affect them least, can't they?

Just because Im not in as much pain as you doesnt mean I dont care. I dont sit there and drown myself in tears, I dont let anything get me down. If I sat there and felt sorry for myself what good would that do? I have my whole life infront of me there will be more bad things to come, But I am prepared to not let them fase me cause its a part of life. Bad things happen to everyone, BUT Goood Things also happen too. Dont look back and dont look to far ahead..

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

The best listeners listen between the lines.

What can we do? We cannot enforce. We try to explain. We want to empower. But no one can come and change them if they do not want themselves -Ahmed Maalim Mohamed

Catching others' feelings is why some people think that they have too much empathy; they are overly sensitive to others' feelings and as a result can feel taken over, manipulated, conned, and so on. Sufficient boundary strength permits you to be empathic without experiencing the negative effects. Until

Your parent is not open to your thoughts, feelings, and ideas; does not relate to or care about your feelings; does not feel a need to change anything about himself; and can become enraged that you think that he is less than perfect. You cannot win, or even make any inroads into your parent's self-absorption.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

im so ugly but thats ok cuz so are you.

If you take people to be what they think themselves to be, you will only hurt them as they hurt themselves so grievously all the time. But if you see them as they are in reality, it will do them enormous good.

What is in the world cannot save the world; if you really care to help the world, you must step out of it.

Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans