Quotes About Empathy

Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?

People screw up, you know. You shouldn't hold it against them. You shouldn't expect everyone to know everything you're thinking about or not getting from them. It doesn't mean they don't love you. They screw up. -Bobby

But it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you -Jen

Even now, after Nick had caused me pain, the truth was I didn't want to cause him any. Wasn't that love, after all?

Thing is, either way we cut it, we shouldn't test the people we love

You learn it in the moments when everyone's too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.

We don't turn away from the parts of someone we don't want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

She tries to figure out how to say it so he hears her.

In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It's the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don't turn away from the parts of someone we don't want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It's the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don't turn away from the parts of someone we don't want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

As she reads, I listen to her

Achei que se eu fosse legal, gente boa, ela entenderia que pode contar comigo. Mas não é assim que a gente sabe que pode contar com alguém. A gente descobre isso nos momentos em que todo mundo está cansado demais para ser legal, cansado demais para se esforçar. A gente descobre vendo o que essa pessoa faz por nós.

I'd learned early on that people stay away if they think you're struggling. They don't want the stink to fall on them too.

Thing is, either way we cut it, we shouldn't test the people we love," he said. "We do, but it's shitty and ultimately, regardless of what they did or didn't do, we're the ones who feel like we failed.

it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you.

make this all work." "My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They

I thought if I were nice enough, sweet enough, she'd understand she could count on me. But that's not how you learn you can count on someone. You learn it in the moments when everyone's too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard.

I'll just assume that whatever your mother did wrong, she did one thing great. That's you. She figured it out enough to make you. I can overlook the rest. And you can have the freedom to feel whatever you want toward her. With no judgment.

The part where someone looks at you, really looks at you, when you walk into a room. You either have that with someone or you don't.

She wanted to only want for her children what they want for themselves, even if she doesn't agree with it, even if she wouldn't hope for that.

being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn't as wonderful as it seemed...being aware of what other people felt at every moment would come to cause him a lot of headaches, and huge disappointments in love.

La experiencia lo hizo descubrir el gran poder que las palabras tenían para acercar o alejar a las personas, y que lo importante no era el idioma que se utilizara sino la intención que llevaba el comunicado.

She felt love: real Love. The kind of love that makes no distinction, that doesn't separate, that is not contained within a body. She cried from so much love.

Dicen que el sordo no oye, pero compone. Tal vez Nacha sólo escuchó las palabras que todos callaron.