Quotes about Empathy

she wanted to sit in the dark and whisper all of her fears into an ear which would hold every word like a silver shell.

Sometime after the accident, her parents stopped talking to each other unless they needed to discuss a household chore or a doctor's appointment. It's true, tragedy can bring you closer or drive you apart.

To find someone, it was necessary to follow in the way that the angels who follow men's lives on earth are said to do, charting each trespass without judgment, for judgment is never ours to give.

Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.

What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.

Matt and Will got out and hoisted the wolfhound inside. The faithful deserve something, on this everyone agreed: kindness, at least, consideration, naturally; most of all, the right to their grief.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238

We do not believe in heaven or hell...; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.

Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.

I wish I could be traveling with her, but thank God she able to do it. Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.