Quotes About Empathy

Birinin sarf ettiÄŸi sözlerden dolay? ac? çekeriz ve hançerlenmiÅŸ gibi hissederiz. Ve kendi düÅŸüncelerimiz de bizi her gün yüzlerce kez hançerler. Yine de çektiÄŸimiz ac?, sadece bizim ac?m?z deÄŸildir.

When we want to understand something, we cannot just stand outside and observe it. We have to enter deeply into it and be one with it in order to really understand. If we want to understand a person, we have to feel his feelings, suffer his sufferings, and enjoy his joy. The word comprehend is made up of the Latin roots cum, which means with, and prehendere, which means to grasp it or pick it up. There is no other way to understand something.

maitri, which can be translated as loving-kindness or benevolence.

The second element of true love is compassion, karuna. This is not only the desire to ease the pain of another person, but the ability to do so.

The third element of true love is joy, mudita.

The ocean of suffering is immense, but if you turn around, you can see the land. The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

The Buddha taught that this is like this, because that is like that. You see? Because you smile, I am happy. This is like this, therefore that is like that.

Your partner needs your attention and your watering of his or her positive seeds. Without that attention, your relationship will wither.

Even with a lot of goodwill, we can still make the other person very unhappy. Mindfulness is the paintbrush in the art of happiness. When we are mindful, we are more artful and happiness blooms

Do you have enough time to love? Can you make sure that in your everyday life you have a little time to love?

You must always check things out by going to the person in question and asking for his or her help: "Dear one, I am suffering so much, help me please.

Compassionate listening is a very deep practice. You listen not to judge or to blame. You listen just because you want the other person to suffer less.

According to Buddhism, we are dealing with samyojana, the lump of suffering within us that is translated as an "internal formation." When you say something that makes another person suffer, that person develops an "internal formation.

El deseo de dañar que alberga el terrorista se origina en su propio sufrimiento. Quien ignora el modo de tratar su propio sufrimiento puede tratar de aliviarlo castigando a los demás.

Understanding is the essence of love. If you cannot understand, you cannot love.

You could treat people right without fearing or trying to please God. You could do it simply because it was human to do it, because love was a more ennobling tendency than hate, and if you were lucky, maybe you could live with yourself and sleep nights.

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.

We see so much sadness if we care to look.

O how unconcernedly do many look on the miseries of others, how far are they from taking a lesson to themselves therefrom!

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

I could never divide my selfe from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with mee in that, from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent my selfe...

one cannot hope to protect mankind from crimes such as those that were visited upon us unless one struggles to brek the cycle of hatred and voilence that invariable leads to ever more suffering by innocent human beings.

treat them with humanity, not because we sought their gratitude or wanted to show how generous in spirit we were, but simply because our experience should have taught us to empathize with human beings in need, regardless of who they were.

Films and television let us experience other lives vicariously, or perhaps voyeuristically, as we watch those lives play out. But in a novel, we can become those characters, we can identify from the inside with someone whose life is radically different from our own. Best of all, when it's over … we get to be ourselves again, changed slightly or profoundly by the experience, possessed of new insights perhaps, but recognizably us once more.