Quotes About Empathy

Deficits in mentalizing have also been linked with identity diffusion

difficulties in interpersonal functioning, particularly with intimacy and empathy.

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

Fundamentally, a resonator is someone who says, "I hear you. I understand what you are trying to do. I'll help you get there.

Remember the Russians!

There were some days that deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates and a warm, energetic companion. Today was without question one of those days.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

I don't understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.

And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma.

He looked through the bars thoughtfully, then back at me. "I'll never forget how she went to you after Lois's funeral that day," he said. "She's a very intuitive little girl, and that moment told me something about you." "It did?" I asked. He nodded. "It told me you're someone worth fighting for," he said.

There was something real breakable about Mary Ella and I was always afraid if I touched her in the wrong spot, she'd crack.

Two decades had passed, yet she still saw her parents' bloodied bodies in every shooting victim she treated.

You're supposed to help people, even if it's hard to do. Especially if it's hard to do.

I'd seen pictures of the wall online, but nothing prepared me fr seeing it in person. It was a deep scar in the earth and looked like a long black mirror reflecting the puffy white clouds, the blue sky, the trees and grass. It reflected the things people left at its base -- small flags and stuffed animals and photographs. And it reflected the faces of the people who stood in front of it, looking, pointing, weeping. It reflected me.

Was it possible to love people you had never met, I wondered...

But the truth is, sometimes kids—and adults—seem to wait until their relatives are out of the room to go. It's like they don't want to distress them more than they have to.

People can do all manner of stupid things. Doesn't mean they're bad people, necessarily.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it. What we're searching for is what we lack.

No one can predict who is going to touch your heart in a way that changes your very being.

I want to hold my life up alongside hers in order to, as she wrote, reach a point where i begin to see me-and her-in a more understandable light.

wanted to tell him I understood. But the truth was, no one can really understand what another person is going through.