Quotes About Empathy

Everyone has suffered more than you know.

To not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.

What a difference having a friend makes.

I hope you can someday forgive me.' 'I forgive you now.

But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.

We all got things under our skin. Everybody does. Like a glass sliver. Can't see nothin' there, but it works its way in deeper and gets to festerin' and hurts so that we're ready to just cut the whole thing out.

It takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary

Sometimes our cruelest acts come not from meaning to do wrong but from not trying hard enough not to.

Some people aren't meant to fight. They're meant to pick up the pieces.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Taylor, McKenna, Abigail, and Taylor simultaneously crouched over in pain.

Ostin, quit calling us mutants

True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.

There are people whom we've never met in person yet feel closer to than those we brush up against in real life. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

suppose we as children are selfish by nature, judging our parents in the context not of their worlds and challenges but of our worlds and how they meet our needs. Even as we mature we rarely think of them as having been young like us.

The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.

takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

take it out on whoever is close. Even people we love. Taylor's afraid for Michael and so she's upset. And since he isn't here, she took it out on you.

Some own up to their past. Some are owned by their past. The wise take what they can from the past and then leave it behind.

The measure of love isn't how much you want someone. It's revealed in what you want for them.