Quotes About Empathy

Viviamo in un'epoca di autismo sociale in cui la gente non capisce perchè dovrebbe considerare l'impatto delle proprie azioni sulla collettività.

Shh," she said sternly, as if Luc had been the one who'd just let out the caterwaul.

If you are afraid, or if you feel hurt by something, I want you to tell me, and between the two of us we shall do whatever it takes to see you are happy.

It was her experience that there were different kinds of people in the world; those who got kicked by life and kicked back, those who were kicked and turned to kick someone else, and those who were kicked and kicked themselves for it. She admired those who kicked back, and could live with those who kicked themselves, but Eshe had no time for those who were kicked and turned around and kicked someone else.

No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

People try to help, but all they have to work with is their theory of you. In the end they're talking to themselves.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

Third, this unitary definition of love includes self-love with love for the other. Since I am human and you are human, to love humans means to love myself as well as you.

True listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self.

Moreover, the genuine lover always respects and even encourages this separateness and the unique individuality of the beloved. Failure to perceive and respect this separateness is extremely common, however, and the cause of much mental illness and unnecessary suffering.

It has been further suggested that the absence of love is the major cause of mental illness and that the presence of love is consequently the essential healing element in psychotherapy. This

If I truly love another, I will obviously order my behavior in such a way as to contribute the utmost to his or her spiritual growth.

The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

Any genuinely loving relationship is one of mutual psychotherapy.

To confront one's beloved is to assume a position of moral or intellectual superiority over the loved one, at least so far as the issue at hand is concerned. Yet genuine love recognizes and respects the unique individuality and separate identity of the other person.

And then I realized that Mrs. X. was actually not able to distinguish between Susan and herself. What she felt, Susan must feel. She was using Susan as a vehicle to express her own needs. She was not doing this consciously or maliciously; on an emotional level she could not, in fact, perceive Susan as having an identity separate from her own.

Or even when we determine that people are truly intending to encroach on us, we may realize that, for one reason or another, it is not in our best interests to respond to that imposition with anger.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

M?sura-probabil cea mai bun?- a m?re?iei unei persoane este capacitatea de a suferi''.

we are incapable of loving another unless we love ourselves, just as we are incapable of teaching our children self-discipline unless we ourselves are self-disciplined.