Quotes About Empathy

Verbal compliments, or words of appreciation, are powerful communicators of love.

When I sit with my wife and give her twenty minutes of my undivided attention and she does the same for me, we are giving each other twenty minutes of life. We will never have those twenty minutes again; we are giving our lives to each other. It is a powerful emotional communicator of love.

Love makes requests, not demands.

It takes time and the conscious choice to listen.

Togetherness has to do with focused attention. It is giving someone your undivided attention. As humans, we have a fundamental desire to connect with others. We may be in the presence of people all day long, but we do not always feel connected.

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

The choice to do or say something for the other person's benefit, that would help make them a better person, something that would enrich their lives and make their lives more meaningful for them.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

Can emotional love be reborn? You bet! The key is to learn the primary love language of your spouse and choose to speak it.

If acts of service do not come naturally for you, it is still a love language worth acquiring. It is a way of expressing a sense of responsibility for the well-being of others. Albert Schweitzer said repeatedly As long as there is a man in the world who is hungry, sick, lonely or living in fear, he is my responsibility. Helping others is universally accepted as an expression of love.

The choice to love is the choice to take initiative. It is the choice to do or say something for the other person's benefit, something that would help make them a better person, something that would enrich their lives or make life more meaningful for them.

Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.

There is a third truth, which only the mature lover will be able to hear. My spouse's criticisms about my behavior provide me with the clearest clue to her primary love language.

Expressing love in the right language. We tend to speak our own love language, to express love to others in a language that would make us feel loved. But if it is not his/her primary love language, it will not mean to them what it would mean to us.

A soft answer turns away anger.

But if, once we return to the real world of human choice, we choose to be kind and generous, that is real love.

Love won't allow you to bear burdens alone. — Tina Givens —

Quality conversation is quite different from the love language words of affirmation. Affirming words focus on what we are saying, whereas quality conversation focuses fully as much on what we are hearing. If I am sharing my love for you by means of quality time and we are going to spend that time in conversation, it will be with a genuine desire to understand your thoughts, feelings and desires.

A relationship calls for sympathetic listening with a view to understanding the other person's thoughts, feelings, and desires.

We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve. A relationship calls for sympathetic listening with a view to understanding the other person's thoughts, feelings, and desires.

Sometimes our words are saying one thing, but our tone of voice is saying another. We are sending double messages. Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.

A gentle answer turns away wrath.

What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives.

Love helps those that are hard to pray for turn into people who are easy to pray for. — Donna Collins Tinsley —