Quotes About Empathy

Communication is a beautiful thing, when it works.

Jja s'inquiétait pour lui. Il n'avait pas essayé de lui expliquer tous ses ennuis, car elle n'aurait jamais pu les comprendre. Elle ne lui en voulait pas, il en était persuadé. Elle faisait de son mieux : elle offrait sa compassion silencieuse pour atténuer une douleur secrète, comme maintenant. Il savoura cette attention paisible pendant un moment. —

I'm loyal to you, too, because you have been kind to me and I won't return hurt for kindness.

We live in hard times. Trouble should become easier to handle as we are older, but by then we know that the world is not cruel, only indifferent, and that hurts even more.

4. Recibir la bendición de Dios debería hacer de nosotros gente que "bendice" a otros.

You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

We see the beauty within and cannot say no.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. — Albert Schweitzer

Increasing the distance between the [combatants]—whether by emphasizing their differences or by increasing the chain of responsibility between the aggressor and his victim allows for an increase in the degree of aggression. —Ben Shalit The Psychology of Conflict and Combat

The guy pulling the trigger," wrote Allen Cole and Chris Bunch, "never suffers as much as the person on the receiving end." It is the existence of the victim's pain and loss, echoing forever in the soul of the killer, that is at the heart of his pain.

killing the grunts of North Vietnam, the grunts of America had killed a part of themselves.

in killing the grunts of North Vietnam, the grunts of America had killed a part of themselves.

Every truly successful duck raiser I have observed over the years has had the ability to step out of a predator mentality and has learned how to look at the world from a duck's perspective.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

if you give, you begin to live.

There are evil people, but they still came weeping from someone's vagina.

Funny the way it is, if you think about it Somebody's going hungry and someone else is eating out. Funny the way it is, not right or wrong Somebody's heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song.

Part of the discipline of the person-centred approach is not to make assumptions about the client's appropriate process, but to follow the process laid out by the client.

Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel.

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.

When we forgive, we free ourselves from the bitter ties that bind us to the one who hurt us.

If you can make the customer feel the way you do about your product, then your customer will buy your product.