Quotes About Empathy

a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved. The genuine lover always perceives the beloved as someone who has a totally separate identity. 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.

Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

On the contrary, real love often occurs in a context in which the feeling of love is lacking, when we act lovingly despite the fact that we don't feel loving.

love ''as the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Ne?manoma suprasti kito, nepadarius jam erdv?s savyje.

It is impossible to truly understand another without making room for that person within yourself.

Failure to perceive and respect this separateness is extremely common, however, and the cause of much mental illness and unnecessary suffering.

The essential ingredient of successful deep and meaningful psychotherapy is love. ... Intensive psychotherapy in many ways is a process of reparenting.

He wondered if all camaraderie was actually dimly sensed psychic connection.

Because I begin from the premise that people are too complex for simple explanations. It is the habit of simplifying people that leads so many astray in their quest for understanding. You can't learn a person you've decided you already understand.

Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive. -Jack Reacher

There was nothing wrong with being understanding and sympathetic. It had been instilled in him all his life... Be a good Christian, son. Put others needs before your own. It had been so instilled in him, in fact, that once he was away from home, he'd had to learn it was also okay to speak about your own needs and say what you wanted, too. The trick was to somehow find a balance between the two.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

Compassion is the religion of the heart.

There is no prayer greater than service.

Love costs less than hate. (Told to Ma by her babysitter, Tirza the Winebath Girl.)

When someone is grieving He had too much respect for sorrow to approach it with curiosity. He had learned to put off his shoes when he drew nigh the burning bush of human pain.

The good man never wrote or read a sermon, but talked to his people as one who would meet what was in them with what was in him.

não basta ver uma mulher para a conhecer, é preciso ouvi-la também; ainda que muitas vezes basta ouvi-la para a não conhecer jamais.

solidariedade do aborrecimento humano. como é que este capítulo escapou a Aristóteles

Deixei-me estar a contemplar o cadáver, com alguma simpatia, confesso. Imaginei que ela saíra do mato, almoçada e feliz. A manhã era linda.

E ambos pararam a distância, tomados daquele desejo de conhecer a vida alheia, que é muita vez toda a necessidade humana

Eu gosto de olhos que sorriem, de gestos que se desculpam, de toques que sabem conversar e de silêncios que se declaram.