Quotes About Empathy

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

She had a kind heart, though that is not of much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

There's two ways to be selfish. You can think too much about yourself, or you can think too little about others. You're selfish both ways.

All distances are the same to those who don't meet.

If there's even one person who might be hurt by a decision, you should never make it.

human beings interested her so much that it must always be an advantage to meet another one.

When you are able to be with a person and there is no need to talk, something has happened.

She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich New Yorker then, or a Midwestern pioneer. She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how to escape the prison of her own mind, how to expand, and experience.

No se aprende nada lastimando a los demás; solo aprendes cuando te lastiman a ti.

Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you.

Rafferty gripped his brother's shoulder and pushed him in the direction of his wife. She was rolling on the fresh-turned earth of Charlie's grave now, and her cries were no longer human. "Go hold her. Go on, even if she fights you, but, dammit, hold her." Go on, brother, before I do, because if I do, you ain't ever getting her back .

I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved to me that we can be better than we are."19

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around

Read everything and be kind.

To know a thing, dip yourself in it like pen and ink, let it write you in its own words. Elizabeth Ayres

What you are, all that you are, shows in everything about you—your honesty, your compassion, your courage, your intelligence, and most of all your love.

Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That's who we teach!

People are people, Meg, no matter what their skin color is or how much money they have or what country they come from. We all breathe and feel joy and pain. We all hate and love and laugh and cry and bleed. And no matter how different we may be on the outside, God loves us all and never leaves us.

Try not to take it personally if the mother criticizes you or tells you to stop doing something that you expected to be helpful. Just say, "Sorry," and stop doing it. Don't try to explain why you did it or express frustration with her. She is really saying that labor is so difficult right now that nothing helps. You are the safest person for her to lash out at. Later, she will probably apologize.

I'm sorry, George,' said the features editor, Colin Firth

Oh, other people's happiness, especially when it is ill-won, is hard to bear when you are unhappy yourself,' he said. 'I should know.

And not telling anyone anything whenever possible is the secret of a happy marriage, in my experience.