Quotes about Empathy
Let my burden be your burden, and yours be mine.
— Alice Hoffman
Let love be one, let it heal what had been broken, let it open the door to hope for the future.
— Alice Hoffman
You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.
— Alice Hoffman
You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.
— Alice Hoffman
I wondered if damaged people ever got over what damaged them.
— Alice Hoffman
I thought perhaps it was more important to listen than to be heard.
— Alice Hoffman
Was it possible to know anyone, truly?
— Alice Hoffman
She didn't thank Ben, and she probably should have, but maybe he knows that she's grateful. Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.
— Alice Hoffman
That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do as imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
— Alice Hoffman
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
— Alice Hoffman
She once told me that anyone who gets married had better like herself, because there's nobody else in this world that she'll ever really know, not truly.
— Alice Hoffman
I'm really happy that you're here." This is not an outright lie. No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
— Alice Hoffman