Quotes About Empathy

Ba?kas?na merhamet etmek, ondan daha kuvvetli oldu?umuzu zannetmektir ki, ne kendimiz bu kadar büyük, ne de ba?kalar?n? bizden daha zavall? görmeye hakk?m?z yoktur.

?nsanlar birbirlerini tan?man?n ne kadar güç oldu?unu bildikleri için bu zahmetli i?e te?ebbüs etmektense, körler gibi rastgele dola?may? ve ancak çarp??t?kça birbirlerinin mevcudiyetinden haberdar olmay? tercih ediyorlar.

Stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face.

God is always on the side of the persecuted,

Een dovemansgesprek dat maakte dat ik mijn toevlucht weer zocht in mijn innerlijke monoloog. Het maakt hem geen moer uit hoe ik er aan toe ben. Ik kan bloed verliezen tot ik crepeer, ik kan het uitschreeuwen van de pijn, hij zal door blijven gaan.

I'm a mite worried about how Foodle will respond to being out here," her aunt continued. "She's so sensitive to strange surroundings." Foodle apparently excelled at hiding her sensitivities, for she was chasing her tail with great enthusiasm.

You must think beyond your vengeance

My father used to say that hatred only hurts the hater; it does nothing to affect the hated. Which makes it an impractical emotion.

I have learned that frustration is allowed and talking it through is necessary.

Sabrina Ward Harrison

It's nice to be important, but it's also important to be nice. Never forget that.

I understood that being loving and compassionate is not an idea. To live in empathy is not some esoteric principle. This is the way a human being is made. If you do not identify with anything you have accumulated over a period of time, including your body and mind, you will be able to experience this.

If you don't know how to keep yourself as a joyous, peaceful and loving human being, what can you do for your child? Your child will only imbibe your tensions, anger, anxiety and every other nonsense. If you are really concerned about your child, first you must be willing to transform yourself.

If you can look at everything lovingly, the whole world becomes beautiful in your experience.

you did not create life, so you have no business to take it either—whether it is yours or someone else's.

But to be loving is simply this: a willingness to respond freely and openly.

Somehow in the name of divinity we have just lost our humanity. Don't talk about divinity, let your humanity overflow. When your humanity overflows, you will touch divinity, otherwise there is no way. It is simply empty talk; it doesn't get anybody anywhere.

When everybody was talking about going to heaven, Gautama the Buddha said, "You say everything is fine in heaven, so what will I do there? Let me go to hell and do something to help others, because anyway I cannot suffer.

It doesn't matter who I meet, I will never speak to them in a manner that I regret later, because this meeting could be my last.

They say how long a minute is essentially depends on which side of the bathroom door you are! Those inside say, "Just a minute, I'm coming." That one minute, for the person outside, is an eternity!

I gave her just one guidance: "Never look up to anyone; never look down on anyone." If people practiced this simple sadhana, they would see everything just the way it is. If you look up to someone, you will exaggerate their positive qualities; if you look down on someone, you will exaggerate their negative qualities. But if you simply look—not for something, but just look—you will see things just as they are.

that people understand this: you did not create life, so you have no business to take it either—whether it is yours or someone else's.

One of the biggest problems in the world today is loneliness.

Why do you need to be pleasant within? The answer is self-evident. When you are in a pleasant inner state, you are naturally pleasant to everyone