Quotes About Empathy

I reached up to press a kiss to his cheek. "Do not be too angry with Father. He did not mean it not really." "Angry? I feel rather sorry for him. We are kindred spirits," he observed with a wry twist of his mouth. "How so?" "We both suffer because you will not understand how utterly essential you are to our happiness.

There will always be men who rally to the cause of another man in his moment of disgrace simply because they fear their own so deeply.

If there is one thing I have learnt in my years of Good Works, it is that thinking of others can be a blessed respite from thinking of oneself.

Have you ever looked a starving beggar in the eye and thought that the privileges you enjoy are nothing more than a whim of the cosmos?

What, I began to wonder, was the point of allowing a gentleman access to one's bed and heart if he could not interpret a lady's most irrational moods?

No," he said slowly. "I am better than a husband. I am your friend.

Sometimes I helps a few of the other girls out," she told him, raising her chin. "Long Bet needed new boots last week, and Mary Jane lacked a few shillings to renting her own room. She's got a snug little place of her own, just around the corner," she added. The dreams in this part of the city were as small and pinched as the faces. Four walls to call one's own. A hot meal, a pair of shoes with sound soles.

It isn't kindness to give a thirsty man water," she said. "It is human decency.

The world would be a rather better place if we looked only for God in one another. -- Harry Cavendish

The soul is a thing apart. When you decide to share that with someone, then you will know what it is to live.

have faith that men can be as reasonable and logical as women if they but try.

She deserves to be left in peace, not displayed like a fairground attraction for people with half a shilling to gawp at.

You have suffered a terrible blow, but you shall recover. You are young and strong, and you will feel this pain acutely because as yet in your life you have not suffered much. But you must believe me when I tell you that this will be blunted, the edge will not cut so deep after a while. You will enjoy life again, and you will laugh and love and weep for others.

Every person who identifies female and has rage. I feel you, sister. This one's for you.

You should stop beating yourself up over the past. If you feel you've wronged someone, apologize and move on.

I know it's hard when you can't fix what's wrong for those you love. In those times, you have to be there as support to help them make it through.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

Your sibling, after all, is the only other person in the world who understands how fucked up your parents made you.

You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.

This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.