Quotes About Empathy

At times we feel we are being mean if we confront people who have problems, when in reality "tough love" is what Jesus often used to set people free. Although Jesus had compassion for hurting people, He never merely felt sorry for them.

Autocomp?timirea înseamn? c? te lauzi cu cât de rea îÈ›i e viaÈ›a. Sun? cam aÅŸa: "ViaÈ›a mea e mai rea decât a oricui. Mi-e aÅŸa de greu! Nu ÅŸtiu cum poate supravieÈ›ui cineva care are o via?? atât de rea ca a mea. Nimeni nu înÈ›elege cum m? simt ÅŸi nim?nui nu-i pas?.

Becoming established in the thought I am difficult to offend can prepare you ahead of time for any offense you may face. It will set you up to forgive and release the offender, which will keep you out of the snare of unforgiveness.

no matter how difficult your life may be during certain seasons, remember to do all you can do to bless, help, and encourage others.

If we are truly listeners and givers, we will try to help others receive what they need and be a blessing to them. But often our problem is that we spend far too much time trying to bless ourselves and not nearly enough time trying to bless someone else. Godly

It is very helpful for us to remember that "hurting people hurt people." I don't think very many people wake up every day with the thought in mind of purposely seeing how much they can hurt everyone in their life, yet that is often exactly what they do. Why? Usually because they are hurting and have unresolved issues in their own life.

When I walk in love, I am not so caught up in how I feel, but I care more about what is going on in the lives of others than what is going on in mine.

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty (snobbish, high-minded, exclusive), but readily adjust yourself to [people, things] and give yourselves to humble tasks.

Do not judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves. For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you. Matthew 7:1,2

Power Thought: God has given me the ability to adjust to people and things and remain in peace.

The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real love has little to do with gooey emotions and goose bumps; and it has everything to do with the choices we make about the way we treat people.

As a Spirit-filled believer, you need to take the initiative to treat people the way you want to be treated, not the way they treat you.

What we make happen for someone else, God will make happen for us. Do you sometimes find yourself wishing you had more encouragement, maybe from your family or friends or boss? But how often do you encourage others? If you're not sure, then make an extra effort right away. You can be the channel that God uses to keep someone confidently pressing toward success rather than giving up.

If we are not living our lives to make someone else's better, than we are not really living at all.

Encouraging someone and speaking truth into someone's life when God asks you to do so are healthy and wonderful things—but it's never right to make a quick, dismissive judgment. Our judgments based on external appearances don't have all the information and wisdom that

Din moment ce nu exist? oameni perfecÈ›i ÅŸi cu toÈ›ii avem sl?biciuni, e imposibil s? fim într-o relaÈ›ie ÅŸi s? nu fim r?niÈ›i sau dezam?giÈ›i niciodat?.

I have now learned that we do not even know what "happy" is until we forget about ourselves, start focusing on others, and become generous givers.

Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference(a grievance or complaint) against another, readily pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so must you also [forgive]. ( Colossians 3:13 )

Shit... you're not coming with me, are you? [Butch to Vishous] I don't feel like killing anyone anymore. Oh. Good. The idea that you might only cripple the guy makes me feel a fuck of a lot better about leaving you here.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

The I realized no one wants to hear heroic stories, but everyone likes to be told about someone else's misery.

La experiencia, eso que llamamos experiencia, no es el inventario de nuestros dolores, sino la simpatía aprendida hacia los dolores ajenos.

Traigo los ojos con que ella miró estas cosas, porque me dio sus ojos para ver: