Quotes About Empathy

Guenevere brought me a cookie and a big box of Kleenex. She said that choices can't be good or bad. There is only the event and the lessons learned from it.

When you do something nice for somebody, it is just like walking around a temple. It is just like saying a prayer.

And even though I knew in my head there's nothing a man can do that a woman can't, I also knew in my heart we can't help doing it for different reasons. And just like a man will never understand exactly how a woman feels when she has a baby, or an orgasm, or the reasons why she'll fight so hard to be loved, a woman can't know in what way a man satisfies himself, what question he answers for himself, when he looks right at death.

Why are we so hard on one another? I wonder. Hadn't the world already given us challenges enough?

Never assume that you know the mind of another.

You love the people they were before, before all the awfulness that made them do this thing.

You know, when you were little and you got hurt or scared, I could make it all better with a hug or treat. But when your children get older, it becomes less and less easy to heal their wounds.

You love the people they were before, below all the awfulness that made them do this thing, you know?

But the truth was when it came to grief, each person was an island, alone. She'd learned that the hard way. She had tried to join a war widows group in New York shortly after she had arrived. She'd hoped she would find some connection that would help her break through the wall that seemed to have formed around her heart, but as she sat among those sorry women who had supposedly known what she had gone through, she had never felt more alone.

His kind of courage was boundless, though, and he would not have turned away a person in need, whether a star performer or a simple laborer or a child such as Theo with no skills at all. It was not about the circus or family connections, but human decency. Herr

You kept this from me." "I didn't include you," he corrected. As if that made a difference.

Quieres a las personas por lo que eran antes, por encima del horror que las hizo comportarse como lo hicieron.

I'm not sure she's ready," Brian added, "to put someone else first.

Don't judge," I say, the rebuke in my voice sharper than I intended. "Sometimes the running just gets to be too much.

It's as though for just a few minutes her flawless exterior cracked open a bit, and I could see the love and hurt inside.

His sadness resonated with me and we were drawn to one another.

Cats aren't shirts that you buy at the store and then return if they don't fit. Nor are they a pair of shoes you can give away or toss out when you've outgrown them. While these comparisons may seem ridiculously obvious to you, the sad fact is that too many cat owners actually do view their cats that way. As a result, countless cats end up relinquished to shelters or just abandoned because they didn't meet their owners' expectations of the perfect cat.

Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhoods.

However we treat the child, the child will treat the world.

The world had become a much more interesting place, filled with fellow travelers whose joys and sorrows he no longer disdained to know and whose shortcomings he was far more inclined to overlook.

PETA is such an important cause to me. The mistreatment of animals is something that just really gets me. I feel it's really the most important part of what I do. Don't Eat Meat! Don't Wear Fur! I mean, there are so many other options these days.

I'm on a mission to love, give as much as I can, and support people who make a difference.

I also believe that people who love animals have a big heart. It says a lot about someone who is an animal lover and lover of vulnerable people and the environment and planet. Being able to have empathy is key to everything.

Life can be cruel and uncomfortable at times. That doesn't define you. It's how we survive and create a colorful life with our experiences. Good and bad.