Quotes about Empathy

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

Know that the only remedy for love is to love more.

Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold. Fall in love whenever you can.

I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.

Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn't help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who'd lost their way, the ones who'd lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel.

It was true, when you saved someone, they belonged to you in some small way, but it was also true that you belonged to them. They would stay with you and enter into your dreams and your thoughts, as you would enter into theirs.

what does love matter in a world where it's so easy to hurt someone?

If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.

I knew that my brother would still be a part of this world no matter what happened next. I felt my love for him so deeply that my blood seemed to flow down the street to him. My blood sang out my prayer for Luis even while he was still living in our world.

Mean people are meaningless.

In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.