Quotes About Empathize

Quit projecting onto Me your own feelings about yourself.

Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind? In short: "Who can take away suffering without entering it?

You always want to make sure that your work can touch as many people as possible. Whether it's young guys, young girls, you never know where it's going.

By creating problems for others you will never able solve your own problem. When you will try to solve your enemy's problem, your problem will disappear.

If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.

Never will he understand the sufferings of another, who has not experienced them himself, though he have divine Reason and the nature of a genuine devil!

he thought that the crowd seemed to part for her, in a way that the world never moved for him.

This is the journey marriage calls us to, to seek to understand and empathize, for each of us to strive to become a redemptive partner rather than a legal opponent.

You change when you expand your awareness to include the well-being of others.

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

We often talk about "getting out of our comfort zone," but rarely about entering someone else's.

I think that most of the young officers I know are leftists and liberals and Democrats. And the reason is this: All of our soldiers, the men that work for us directly, are minorities - blacks or Latinos. And we empathize with them. Our job is to advise them and help them.

People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.

I know you mustn't think that I understand, that I'm a heartless bitch who couldn't possibly understand, but I do. Believe me, I do. I understand because I'm going through it too.

The adage is true: Walk a mile in my shoes - or drive a mile in my car. There is nothing quite like sitting in the seat yourself.

I would like to see someone walk a mile in my shoes for five minutes.

Walk a mile in my shoes, then come tell me how to live my life.

When we want to understand something, we cannot just stand outside and observe it. We have to enter deeply into it and be one with it in order to really understand. If we want to understand a person, we have to feel his feelings, suffer his sufferings, and enjoy his joy. The word comprehend is made up of the Latin roots cum, which means with, and prehendere, which means to grasp it or pick it up. There is no other way to understand something.

treat them with humanity, not because we sought their gratitude or wanted to show how generous in spirit we were, but simply because our experience should have taught us to empathize with human beings in need, regardless of who they were.

To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.

If we want to understand the actions of other people, we have to understand how they interpreted their circumstances and the choices they faced--not the way we would interpret them or, rather, the way we think we would interpret them if we were in their shoes.

The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.