Quotes About Empathy

Whatever advice you read or hear, remember that you do not have to accept how the extraverted three-quarters of the population defines social skills—working the room, always having a good comeback, never allowing "awkward" silences. You have your own skills—talking seriously, listening well, allowing silences in which deeper thoughts can develop.

HSPs with a troubled childhood are more at risk of becoming depressed, anxious, and shy than those with a similar childhood who are not highly sensitive. But HSPs with good-enough childhoods were no more at risk than others. Another study the same year by Miriam Liss and others found the same result, mainly for depression.

It may be best not to advertise it, but keeping yourself healthy and in your right range of arousal is the first condition for helping others.

HSPs can be instantly aware, whether they wish to be or not, of the mood, the friendships and enmities, the freshness or staleness of the air, the personality of the one who arranged the flowers.

anxious HSPs almost all had troubled childhoods. Non-HSPs with troubled childhoods do not show nearly as much depression and anxiety.

For HSPs, the toughest task of all may have nothing to do with renouncing the world but involve going out and being immersed in it.

Overall, brain activation indicating empathy was stronger in HSPs than those without the trait when looking at photos of anyone's face showing strong emotion of any type (and even more so for people close to them than strangers) and more for happy than unhappy expressions.

Please don't be mad at me," Rich said. "I thought when a woman cared about a man, she naturally wanted to care for his house. It's like an instinct." "Wrong," Helen said. "There's no connection between hormones and housekeeping.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentleman.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El amor que regalamos es el único amor que mantenemos" (Elbert Hubbard)

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

A friend is one who knows you and loves yu just the same.