Quotes About Empathy

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Polarity damages people. The current atmosphere is saturated with disdain for one another. It's time for a new approach that celebrates our common humanity.

Those who have different experiences and cultures will have ideas that can benefit us if we choose to be exposed to them.

think Jesus taught us that we have a Father who loves us more than we know, and if we could sort that out we would know how to treat each other.

I mention Jackie mostly because I want to be assured that I inhabit the same universe as other people; that I am not alone on a distant shore. Jackie glues me to this world—most effectively when I can find a way to mention her name or her attributes, when I can find a pretext, however frail, to introduce her into a conversation, even at the risk of non sequitur, bathos, or incoherence.

Adults who were hurt as children inevitably exhibit a peculiar strength, a profound inner wisdom, and a remarkable creativity and insight. Deep within them - just beneath the wound - lies a profound spiritual vitality, a quiet knowing, a way of perceiving what is beautiful, right, and true. Since their early experiences were so dark and painful, they have spent much of their lives in search of the gentleness, love, and peace they have only imagined in the privacy of their own hearts.

We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another...

Mother Teresa was once asked by a journalist why she does what she does, that is, how she is able to take the dying poor from the streets of Calcutta, nurse and love them. Her response reflected her deep self-knowledge: "I realized a long time ago that I had a Hitler within me."2 This realization became the basis of her self-transcendence and of her unique holiness.

Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace

Conflict cannot survive without your participation

loving people live in a loving world.hostile people live in a hostile world.same world.

They will put that on my gravestone. 'Here lies Tinker, her heart was in the right place, but her foot was in her mouth and god knows where her brain went.

Because Miss Jenkins believes in learned behavior instead of rational thought. What we should be taught is compassionate response.

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

I think we must be careful about too easily accepting, or being too easily grateful for, sacrifices made by others, especially if we have made none ourselves.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

There's nothing more worth doing than trying to be a human in an increasingly dehumanized world.

capable heart. As has happened countless times, he lost me for months on end and not only never complained, he immersed himself in the story, escorted and supported me, provided me with endless pots of tea and emergency gin and tonics. Sorry for the nightmares. Wendy Holden

Gossip went on forever. As Mr. Auden said, 'There is always a great deal of interest in a door behind which something is happening'—but gossip belonged in the realms of a small and uncompassionate world, and Wilfred had seen that the world was larger and more multiple than could ever be described and explained by tittle-tattle.