Quotes About Empathy

Fred rightly reasoned that if we accept ourselves we are better equipped to accept our neighbor.

For Fred, this practical outworking of loving our neighbor-using not only our heart and eyes but our hands-is what defined a hero: 'To see people who will notice a need in the world and do something about it, and rather than view it with despair they view it with hope-that to me is such an enormous gift in this life. Those are my heroes.

Know this: You should judge every person by his merits. Even someone who seems completely wicked, you must search and find that little speck of good, for in that place, he is not wicked. By this you will raise him up, and help him return to God. And you must also do this for yourself, finding your own good points, one after the other, and raising yourself up. This is how melodies are made, note after note. REBBE NACHMAN OF BRESLOV

I'm bi." But he could see how that was a pretty shitty denial to shove in your boyfriend's face, so he kept his mouth shut.

Being someone's rock, even if only in a temporary way, would always be heart-worthy.

In fact, Joe Biden repeatedly reached out with words of kindness. That's a quality in politics that is vastly underestimated.

In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation.

If you really love someone, you want to know what they ate for lunch or dinner without you.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated....

People hurt each other all the time just by being. What matters is that when you hurt someone, you do what you can to make it right.

You cannot take a person's humanity and then retain your own

if I was going to play this game and love it, it had to love me back.

This time, he fumbled for Collin's hand in the elevator. He still felt like a thief, there was no denying it, but sometimes thieves stole things because they needed them to live.

The world isn't made a better place by the unburdening of a heart.

He'd always known that shit rolled downhill, but he never knew tears did the same thing.

You wouldn't shut up about how brain-damaged that 'little Rusky diva-bitch' was and how he needed to just 'get over his sorry self and give our poor cop a blow job and live happily ever after'—you remember that?

Vuoi sapere perchè mi piaci? E' perchè prendi qualcosa che le persone disprezzano e lo tratti come se fosse umano

If you're decent to people, you'll usually find out they're decent people, too.

Kindness is not weakness, Malcolm. Forgiveness isn't lack of backbone. Forgiveness is the thing that lets human beings not strangle each other after a half an hour's acquaintance. It's not something you in particular should shit on, you know?

Sometimes the things that went on between two people were so private and so painful the the rest of the world needed to reserve judgement.

He had learned that sometimes, watching someone work or standing beside them, looking at stars or at bugs or at a sunset, was far more communicative than the eternal babble that sprung from his own wayward tongue.

You do like me, don't you? Even though I'm apparently communicatively handicapped and socially retarded?