Quotes About Empathy

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone needs to be appreciated. Every person needs that blessing.

Live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. 1 PETER 3:8

When someone is rude, keep a smile on your face. When you stay on the high road and keep your joy, you take away their power." - Joel Osteen

As good as the people are in your life, there are no perfect people. There is no perfect boss, no perfect friend, no perfect neighbor, no perfect spouse. Give people room to be human. Quit expecting them to perform perfectly all the time.

The Bible says, "See that none of you repays another evil for evil, but always aim to show kindness and seek to do good to one another and to everybody.

Sometimes you may have to trade places with someone who is hurting.

There's enough judgment in the world; there's enough criticism and faultfinding. Let's be lifters. Let's be encouragers. Let's help someone else experience the God who comes down to lift people up.

Where is the love that will overlook a person's faults?

It's easy to write someone off, but don't. God waited on you; you have to wait on them. Everyone is on a journey. Where they are now is not where they're going to be in ten years. Give them room to change.

We should be encouraging them, lifting them when they've fallen, celebrating when they succeed, praying when they're struggling, urging them forward. That's what it means to be a people builder.

It's not always the big things that keep us from God's best; it's the small things. How we treat people matters. You can't be harsh, contentious, hard to get along with, and reach your potential. Be kind, loving, respectful.

You don't have to hide. You don't have to pretend, worry about what people will think. Everyone is dealing with something. There's no shame in saying, "I need help. I'm struggling; I'm hurting; I'm broken.

Get up in the morning with the attitude, "Who can I be a blessing to today? Who can I encourage? Where is there a need that I can meet? If I meet other people's needs, God can meet mine.

Oftentimes the reason we don't forgive is because what the other person did was wrong. They were clearly at fault. But when you forgive, you're not excusing their behavior. You're not lessening the offense; you're simply getting the poison out of you. You have to forgive so you can be free.

What happens too often when we criticize someone is that we accompany it with strong, negative feelings. We criticize without ever mentioning how many other things we appreciate about our spouse.

Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard global warming advocate, read Glenn Beck. If you're a Rush Limbaugh fan, read James W. Loewen's Lies My Teachers Told Me. It'll do your mind good and get your heart rate up.

never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity'.

being psychologically incapable of understanding the concept of moral problems,

To a civilized man, beyond the simple animal need for food, the greatest necessity is a contact with other men...

People helping each other in the aftermath of tragedy is the only really convincing argument for people.

In the end it doesn't matter if this creature is really our mother. We feed it things and tell it about our problems. It's still all about us.

I wish there were a better than 'sorry'. But then, I'd probably need a better word than that.

Relationships work best if we are honest about not wanting the truth.

We forget that sometimes there is something greater than our pain. That's the pain of the person who loves us, who couldn't protect us from that pain.