Quotes About Empathy

Some of the key elements of an effective apology include: recognition of the emotional impact of the action on others, an expression of regret, and a commitment not to repeat the negative action. Saying, "I'm sorry that you feel hurt," is not nearly as powerful as saying, "I'm sorry for my poor behavior and for the hurt it has caused you.

Understanding is not agreeing.

Peter feasts off people-he finds himself so totally boring that he's got to escape from himself and find refuge and security in another personality-that's the only form of communication left open to him.

To put oneself in the position of others is an act of compassionate imagination freed from self-concern.

When for self, prayer and wish no good; only work good for self. But when wish with heart for other, can help.

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

Be kind for everyone you meet carries a great burden.

Do not judge others by their dramatic moments—how they may panic or become nasty or wild in a crisis—in contrast to their much different normal behavior.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

All alone, or in two's, The ones who really love you Walk up and down outside the wall. Some hand in hand And some gathered together in bands. The bleeding hearts and artists Make their stand. And when they've given you their all Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall.

Sometimes love is hard. The more you practice loving yourself, it becomes second nature. Love yourself no matter what."

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Blood circulating, heart bumping, feelings living deep down in his soul... He is then human.. Rohingya are humans, and humans should know this..

The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.

Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

From the perspective of a narcissist, a person who claims to love them is a fraud, a liar, or blind.

When we can't make sense of the way we are being treated, we wind up distorting our view of ourselves and our relationships.

Unfortunately, however, people don't change by learning more information. The only way to break a bonding pattern is through honest vulnerability.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

The real work was the identification of those aspects of yourself that led to what he called "the negative emotions"—anger, envy, bitterness, greed, cynicism, hatred and the like—things that poured hurt into an already overfull world.

I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.