Quotes About Empathy

With face blindness, I seem to constantly lose the people I love.

The thing suicides don't focus on is their wake. Not just your parents and siblings, but your friends, your girlfriends, your classmates, your teachers." I like the way he seems to think I have many, many people depending on me, including not just one but multiple girlfriends.

Tell her what she wants to hear. But I don't because suddenly I can't do it anymore. She's exhausting and I'm exhausting, and we're exhausting. I've been telling her what she wants to hear for the past four years.

You can't always be fine. No one's always fine. And I know you're used to being on your own, and I know I should have been a better friend so that you didn't have to get used to being on your own, but I'm here now, and I wish you'd talk to me

I forgive everyone and ask forgiveness of everyone

The problem with people is that they forget that, most of the time, it's the small things that count.

But tonight I'm telling myself I don't have anything in common with this Violet girl, no matter how much I want to, and asking myself if the words between us were really that hot or if maybe it was just me imagining, me in overdrive for a girl I barely know, all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language.

In that moment, I wish I could see it through his eyes. I wish he had glasses to give me.

It's not your fault. And sorry is wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

Overdrive for a girl I barely know, all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway.

Maybe it was just me imagining, me in overdrive for a girl I barely know, all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway.

What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.

The fact is, I was sick, but not in an easily explained flu kind of way. It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other recognizable disease just to make it simple for me and also for them.

I'm sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help." "I feel responsible.

has happened with Finch. In that moment, I'm thankful I'm not a parent and I wonder if I ever will be. What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them. Actually, I know exactly how that feels. *

So it always is, he thought, to relieve another you must burden yourself.

The thing about fear,' said Cadfael, seriously considering, 'is that it is pointless. When need arises, fear is forgotten. Would you recoil from taking a leper's hand, if he needed yours, or you his, to be hauled out of danger? I doubt it. Some men would, perhaps-- but of you I doubt it. You would grip first and consider afterwards, and by then fear would be clearly a mere waste of time.

Don't jump to the conclusion that another person just doesn't get it or isn't wise enough just because he doesn't agree with you. The

Yeah, ESP," Juvenal said. "You know how you do it? You listen to the other person instead of thinking of what you're gonna say next. That's all, and you learn things.

It's nice to be loved for one's faults and not one's virtues! ...Knowing that whatever you do or however badly you behave, he still feels the way he said just now. But if people really love each other their faults don't matter, said Bracken..Dinah regarded him with large, serious eyes. I wonder how many people could say that, she murmured.

There, there, she said. Don't take it so hard, Dee. Wars don't last forever. I know. I can remember...

She knew by some sure instinct that when you had come right up against it, as Jeff had, you had no use for people who advised you to brace up, or who pointed out bright spots. She know that there is nothing so infuriating, when you are bearing all you can, as shallow, unrealistic optimism from someone who has not experienced the same disaster.

Jacob, my old friend came first. he was sad. I shouted down to him, The stake, old friend of a lifetime, do something! But we all sit on one, was his reply. I don't see you on one, I objected. And we see nobody else's either. Each of us is alone, on his own stake. This is the stake we share.

But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die? 'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.