Quotes About Empathy

I can't expect him to be as tuned in to Cameron's vulnerabilities as I am. He's never been a throwaway kid. Never experienced the world in a woman's body, or a girl's. Never had a reason to confuse love with suffering.

C'mon, Anna. You don't mean that. It's too soon. You should only be thinking about your family right now, and taking care of yourself.

In a small place like Mendocino, I know all too well, any act of violence is personal. Everyone will be feeling this. Everyone will be affected.

The ghosts of the kids you've helped, they hang on you like stars.

Adults must aim to diminish their egocentric and authoritarian attitude toward the child and adopt a passive attitude in order to aid in his devleopment.

People need each other. Our well-being is tightly tethered to the well-being of people we do not know, most of whom look nothing like ourselves. Happiness, I realized right there in breathing class, requires engagement.

Her slender shoulders slumped making Marcus want to go to her and vow he'd never hurt her the way he could as a Drakkon.

Love is the common currency of the poor.

There is no cure for a bleeding heart.

There comes a time in every relationship when as far as a man is concerned everything that needs to be said has been said. Usually we women are too busy talking to ourselves to notice but, when we do figure it out, boy are we mad.

When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I shall draw a larger circle to include them. Where they speak out for the privileges of a puny group, I shall shout for the rights of all mankind.

O desabafo é uma coisa louca. Umas vezes é tímido, outras é ousado. Não gosta da solidão nem da prisão do peito. Abandona o profundo e corre na estrada de ar, invade os tímpanos alheiros e encrava-se nos sentimentos de outrém.

Best way to get over things is to just forgive the other person. Or yourself.

Aoun wrote of the search for 'that good physician who would say, 'I understand that this illness is happening to you, but we will face it together.

I don't want to die," whispered Marina. "and not feel just once what you feel." She struggled for her breath. "Just once in my life, Tania!" "Tanechka..." she whispered. What does it feel like?" Tatiana continued to gently caress Marina's forehead. "It feels," she whispered, "as if you're not alone.

Tatia, let me take care of you." He stopped and took a breath.

Sometimes the beast needs to be loved before it can be lovable. Love her in her sin, that's what divine love means. Love her with the highest form of love on earth. Love everything. Then you will see mystery in everything.

Slightly less time than it takes one woman to make one life, they managed to snuff out a million and a half lives.

la virtud verdadera y el amor verdadero por los seres humanos se definía asignando a cada objeto el grado preciso de amor que le era propio, que merecía.

No, Tully, he doesn't get it because he doesn't love me. When you don't love somebody you never get how they feel. You don't even look for it.

You know that we all need one other person. One other person to remind us we are still human beings and not beasts.

Sí, te preocupas de los sentimientos de todos, menos de los míos –afirmó Alexandr, con un tono mordaz. –No

What, what? What do you need, son?" Alexander kept saying. Anthony's only arm was around his father's shoulder. "A fucking cigarette.

Love is," she repeated slowly, looking only at Dasha, "when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry