Quotes About Empathy

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

It was one of those moments when you can look in someone else's eyes and see your own reflection so sharp and true that it slices like glass.

You don't need cheering up. You need a good shaking.

Come si può amare qualcuno e non desiderarne la felicità?»

don't let other people's eyes make you hate yourself.

It's amazing, really, the things two people think they know about each other.

I'm sorry I was such a cow this afternoon, Violet," Kelly says to me. "It was really nice of you to eat my pasta." "Paige put hers in her napkin," I say. "Oh really?" Kelly manages a giggle. "I should do that next time.

Nothing like pointing out mistakes someone else is making to help you ignore your own.

Don't talk about yourself too much, don't dominate the conversation, get him comfortable enough to chat about his favorite and most familiar topic: him.

She couldn't even fake being miserable for Andy's sake.

I would never punish the daughter for the mother's crimes.

I said this with the exuberance of telling an infertile couple that they were having twins.

That's a good point, I suppose,' he said in that way people have when you've just said something that's so off the mark it might as well be in Sanskrit, but they like you, so they want to make something positive out of it so they can give you the credit you both know you don't deserve.

If you want to be loved, don't take on responsibility.

True friendship isn't abstaining from hurting one another, but forgiving each other when you do.

If you want to be loved, don't take on responsibility.

If you'd like to sit here and fume about Dempster or whatever else it is that's eating at you, I said, warming to my theme, feel free to go right ahead. I'll just head off home and spend the evening watching the snooker championships. It's not snooker season, actually, offered Colin, in a conciliatory way. Fine. Darts, then. Envisioning them thrown at my head? he asked ruefully. Despite myself, I smiled back. We were getting there.

It's a virtue to know one's own heart and mind. It saves a lot of bother and a great deal of unhappiness.

No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.

Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.

When a marriage works, it is in no small part because a woman and a man have come to recognize in precise measure when enough has been said.

He would be the kind of friend he wished he had, and so perhaps become worthy of having such a friend himself.

The pulsations of the arteries along my fingers pressing across hers, told her what was passing within me: she look'd down—a silence of some moments followed.

A true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. His own ideas are only call'd forth by what he reads, and the vibrations within, so entirely correspond with those excited, 'tis like reading himself and not the book .