Quotes About Empathy

I knew something about loneliness, knew what it was to sit in my room, checking my phone for texts that never came, logging onto Facebook to see other people's statuses, happy statuses indicating their lives had gone on while mine hadn't.

if there´s a beast, maybe he´s just a regular guy with a skin conditon or something. Maybe he just needs some understanding. Maybe we judge people to much by their looks because it´s easier than seeing what´s really important.

Así es como debería ser el amor verdadero, la persona amada debería ser parte de tu alma y deberías saber lo que sienten todo el tiempo.

Part of loving someone is wanting the best for them, even if the best for them isn't being with you.

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is "as good as she is beautiful". I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel sorry for them.

You learn about me, and I learn nothing about you. That's not a foundation on which friendships are based.

Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars--caged. I am not saying there shouldn't be prisons, but there shouldn't be bars. Behind bars, a man never reforms. He will never forget. He will never get completely over the memory of the bars.

Through this flesh, which is us, we are you, and you are us!

I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw...

Jabon Sallah

He didn't understand women so how could he possibly expect to understand their predecessors.

And I needed to be with a friend, okay? A living, breathing, wonderful friend whom I absolutely adore.

Maybe it's a way for you to be that knight in shining armor who comes to the rescue—the one who never came to your rescue as a child." Maggie

There are so many . . . who carry the violence, who keep moving forward enshrouded in its aftermath. Yet there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency, especially among the rest of us.

The only thing you can do is love, because it is the only thing that leaves light inside you, instead of the total, obliterating darkness.

Her hope—and mine—was that a book about the children would make us all hear, that it would make us all stop and listen.

A true friend might leave his buddy's side physically, but never mentally

We are not here to judge others. We are here to follow our hearts and play our roles, not condemn the actions of others (or ourselves).

the I-It relationship, we treat other people as objects and expect something back from each relationship. In contrast, in the I-Thou relationship we relate to others out of respect, friendship, and love.

many bullies lack the self-awareness and insight to see how their power plays are destructive, not only to themselves but to others around them.

The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.

I think it really makes a difference when you know the people that you're working with, when you develop a relationship.

To project our own worldview is to refuse to learn what happened, which prevents us comprehending worldviews that differ significantly from our own. If we insist on treating history as a mirror, we shall see only ourselves.

As President Lincoln in his final days acknowledged, the only way to win and preserve a peace is to afford the loser some dignity.