Quotes About Empathy

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.

That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

She had eyes in the back of her heart.

The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

Kindness may look for something in return, but that doesn't make it any less kind.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

When people look at a dangerous violent criminal at the beginning of his developmental process rather than at the very end of it, they will see, perhaps unexpectedly, that the dangerous violent criminal began as a relatively benign human being for whom they would probably have more sympathy than antipathy.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

If pain were all that mattered, it would be as important to protect the rabbits from the foxes as to protect the Jews from the Nazis.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.

I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.

I've always known that there's more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn't regret that he isn't more fully understood?

Ted Valentine got up from his chair and walked over to me. He stuck out his hand and said, "I'm horribly sorry.

The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand. It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.

A man does not know whose hands will stroke from him the last bubbles of his life. That alone should make him kinder to strangers.

You will see at precisely what moment the writer ceases to think of his character as an instrument to be manipulated and think of him as someone with whom he has fallen in love. For it is always, must always be, a matter of love.

Precisely because she had tended and pitied, the desolation is hers as well.

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