Quotes About Empathy

Tenemos que aprender a seguir el ejemplo de Cristo, que fue movido a compasión por los pecadores y que podía orar por ellos incluso cuando lo estaban clavando a la cruz en el Calvario.

Fellowship is much, much more than food and fun and even more than reading and studying the Scriptures with another believer. Fellowship at times may involve blood, sweat, and tears as we stand side by side with our persecuted brothers and sisters.

The reason most of us do not see opportunities to serve is that we are continually thinking about ourselves instead of others.

How do we view those who do not show love for us? Do we see them as persons for whom Christ died or as persons who make our lives difficult? I

God's love always transcends human love, even human family love, in its ability to reach out to those in need.

Identification is why the reader reads and why the writer writes. We all want to identify with a character, so that we can, in turn, identify with ourselves. Do you have yourself all figured out? Is your self-knowledge so complete? Do you know yourself so well that you'll never do anyting stupid or make a fool of yourself again? When it comes to knowing ourselves, we are incomplete, lacking, deficient. Each of us is our own ongoing problem until the day we die.

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

If I've learned anything about youth it's that they feel a bond with anyone who shows a passion for living.

When I awoke on Wednesday afternoon, I understood how an amputee must feel.

If you knock even the most hateful human being, you will come out of the encounter looking less than heroic. People almost always side with the one being attacked.

That's the true spirit of Christmas people being helped by people other than me.

Men want to make women happy.

When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it pain or to cause it some, depending.

We weren't touching, but my skin could feel her skin buzzing.

Sometimes, it's like you know what people think: You know what they're thinking, and you know it's wrong. All you want to do if change their mind, but you can't.

Not for the first time, as the trip kicks in, I make a note to myself: Don't be an asshole.

Tylko ludzie o du?ej samo?wiadomo?ci potrafi? rozszyfrowa? i rozumie? innych. St?d pozorny paradoks: introwertycy w sposób bardzo czujny i ch?onny ani?eli typy ekstrawertyków otwarci s? na ludzi i ?wiat.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

Wouldn't it be easier to change people's eyes and hair than to build big furnaces and then catch Jews and Gypsies to burn them?

The agony of having to share this small slice of world with big breakable humans who are really just uncovered beating hearts walking around spilling their viscera and their words everywhere, not bothering to clean up. Animals are a smooth punctuation to human parataxis, resisting our love out of modesty.

Integrity and self-esteem are related. The more successfully parents look after a child's integrity, the greater the possibility that the child will develop healthy self-esteem.