Quotes About Empathy

Why is it that bad things have to happen so you learn there are lots of good people in the world?" -Ruthie

You listen well and that makes you a good keeper of stories. I am sure that all my memories are safe with you" -Baba

Why is it that bad things have to happen so you learn there are lots of good people in the world?

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Remembering his own feelings when he had lost his eye on a mission for the British, Dayan stopped at their bedside to cheer them up. "Boys," he said, "for all that's worth seeing in this wretched world, one eye is enough.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. HENRI NOUWEN, THE WOUNDED HEALER

Aun cuando nuestra forma de vida pueda parecernos heroica, hay una buena proporción de nuestra frenética actividad que perturba a aquellos que nos rodean.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

Sie nahmen mich wahr und ließen mich sein, wie ich war. (Bei denen bleib ich.)

Freunde ergänzen einander, ergänzen heißt ganz machen, um das nötig zu haben, muß man beschädigt sein, aber wenn man es nötig hat, so kann man auch niemand brauchen, der auf dieselbe Art beschädigt ist, sondern jemand, der andere Schäden aufweist. Die Freunde füllen die Lücken, komplementär, sie holen auf, was einem fehlt, sie tun, was man versäumt hat, Verwandte tun das nicht, oder wenn, dann nur zufällig.

I used to think that after the war I would have something of interest and significance to tell. A contribution. But people didn't want to hear about it, or if they did listen, it was in a certain pose, an attitude assumed for this special occasion; it was not a partners in a conversation, but as if I had imposed on them and they were graciously indulging me.

Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship, so let's you and me not go there, okay?

The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Don't hate anyone," she had said. "It's quite useless and harms the hater while it does nothing at all to the hated.

I don't judge people. I don't think we should/

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden".

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

This tedious letter to you . . . what is one life to another?

For a romantic relationship to work, it must have shared communication that includes a regular exchange of ideas. Without them, you might as well be roommates.

Their pain was bigger than their love. You had to forgive them for that.