Quotes About Empathy

A victim soul is a pious individual chosen to absorb the pain and suffering of others.

There are worse things in life to be than fat, and one of them is ignorant. Another is prejudiced. Another is deliberately cruel.

Hate the behavior, not the individual.

Nicholas nodded.All right.He stays.But I want to see him and speak to him first. Are you going to give him a hug?Lucian drawled,Tell him everything's going to be all right?Share some feelings perhaps?

Don't think,demon girl.Just feel.Feel and come.

And yet: reacting feels involuntary. As long as we're both breathing, we'll probably forever misread each other's faces; second-guess and misinterpret each other's thoughts, feelings, and motives in the worst possible way.

Isn't everyone's true purpose to love and be loved? To be in service to and to take care of those who need us most?

And just like that I had my lesson. I shouldn't assume that every woman a man bashes gave him a him a good reason to do it.- Anita Blake

And just like that I had my lesson. I shouldn't assume that every woman a man bashes gave him a good reason to do it. - Anita Blake

What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.

You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.

You can be someone's friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional and physical well-being more than you want to fuck them. If you cross that line and want sex more than their happiness, then you aren't their friend.

If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.

Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?

Vampires are people too!

Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain.

She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that's the best you can do with people. I'd tried kindness. I'd tried friendship. I'd tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?

Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.