Quotes About Empathy

That's a rare thing: to love someone, not for how you think of them, but for how they think of themselves.

My ex-wife did once accuse me of treating my own needs as if they were instructions and everyone else's needs as impediments.

I'm grateful to her. This habit women have - a role Helen often claimed not to want - of telling me what I'm feeling. Tremendously helpful. Like having an interpreter at hand to translate you to yourself.

He loves to communicate, so if you let him know it's safe to be honest, he will tell you what he really thinks and feels.

We have had the opportunity to learn from the misjudgments of others, and we have been imbued with determination to use our time wisely, to cause as little pain as possible to others, to pay attention, to live and love with few regrets.

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isn't quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak.

Barbarians are no more marvelous to us than we are to them, nor for better cause," Montaigne wrote. "Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.

Lange, who had been stricken by polio at the age of seven and walked with a painful limp, had become famous for the achingly sympathetic photographs she'd taken for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. "Cripples know about each other," she said of her ability to capture suffering on film.

How do people reconcile themselves to war's worst cruelties?

Most Americans had only ever heard national political candidates shouting, trying to project their voices across a banquet hall or a football field. Hearing Roosevelt speak quietly and calmly, as if he were sitting across the kitchen table, having a reasonable argument with you, earned him Americans' dedicated affection. "It was a God-given gift," his wife said. He "could talk to people so that they felt he was talking to them individually.

And may God better understand and love us, than we, in our weakness, can do him.

Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels

But at a moment when I needed such interaction

I am writing this because they cannot.

I am moved by a person's honest actions and how they treat those around them. These are the qualities I look for in those I wish to have close to me.

Don't ever tell the mother of a newborn that her baby's smile is just gas.

If I fall in love with a woman, that's awesome. If I fall in love with a man, that's awesome. As long as you fall in love… It's like organic food. I only eat healthy food, and I only want healthy love!

There are four categories of questions Emmily asks: 1. Can I please go to the bathroom? 2. Where is the bathroom? 3. Is it okay if I raise my hand and ask a question? 4. I don't understand anything you've said in the last thirty minutes. Could you explain it again? Also the last six weeks.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

What you had to say was important to this individual, and she or he wanted to listen. Just to be listened to can bring good thoughts to mind.

When the going gets tough in a negotiation, your biggest challenge will be your ability to nurture your adversary in spite of everything else going on.

The reverse should be preceded by a short nurturing statement, because you don't want to sound like a district attorney during cross-examination.

We greatly enhance our opportunity for a successful deal by putting the adversary first in our mission and purpose. You make your killing—or just a solid profit—only by entering heart and soul into your adversary's world, business, needs, requirements, hopes, fears, and plans.