Quotes About Empathy

She thought in pictures and feelings, not words.

La gente que sabe contar historias siempre tiene compañía.

No puedo recordar a mi hermana, me pregunto sin embargo qué acerca a la gente al cañón de una escopeta y qué nos mantiene al resto alejados.

Sorprende darse cuenta de cómo el amor alimenta y calma aun en las peores condiciones, o precisamente y con más razón en las peores condiciones.

aquel que se preocupa por los demás, o no tiene problemas o ha decidido olvidarlos.

1) Remain silent you share of the time (more rather than less). 2) Be attentive while others are talking. 3) Say what you think but be careful not to hurt others' feelings. 4) Avoid topics not of general interest. 5) Say little or nothing about yourself personally, but talk about others there assembled. 6) Avoid trying to instruct. 7) Speak in as low a voice as will allow others to hear.

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

a compaixão é frequentemente a pior das conselheiras políticas

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

Everyone's a knucklehead at one point or another.

God doesn't care about what you eat or what you drink. He doesn't care about how often you pray to him or what words you use or where you go to do that....He only cares about how you behave towards one another.

Be the light at the end of the tunnel. Be the reason for the end of someone else's struggle.

Each of us can only do the best we can for as many as we can and that will never be good enough for those of us who care!

Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.

The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.

You can pray for someone even if you dont think God exists.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

You don't have to say anything in particular or do anything in particular to be helpful to people. You become a bodhisattva by wishing for your own happiness as well as the happiness of others, and by opening to your own experience in a loving way. When you love yourself and are kind enough to yourself to be who you really are, you're showing others what they need to do in order to be free.

Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking

When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." Rebecca - age 8

Heartache, to her, coursed through everything--which was as it should be, since people needed it to make them kind.

A friend understands what you're going through enough and can help you through it. A best friend Understands what you're going through too much and ,frankly, it's giving them a headache.