Quotes About Empathy

Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks...

the best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ...

never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...

what is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ...

you can't be intimate unless you're sensitive...

you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...

you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?...

you trace a finger over my scar and uncloak me like a timid star...

that's the essence of me - I don't think, I feel - at best, I think-feel...

some people are incapable of love - they have calloused souls...

you don't need a calling to minister love...

writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...

the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...

to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends...

I look out at the world through your transparent face...

the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...

I believe I am no man's enemy unless he chooses to make me one. For me it's humanity that counts, not the words written in the book of any religion

No one should ever have to see their mom crumpled up in a corner on the floor the way I did so many times.

We become bonded to the person who aggresses against us," said Dr. Ochberg. "And that's the Stockholm syndrome.

I can forgive him for what he's done wrong because that's the way of life.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes it safe for her to express herself. The more she is able to express herself, the more she feels heard and understood, and the more she is able to give a man the loving trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement that he needs.

If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.