Quotes About Empathy

I love you enough to never make you choose.

When we touch...our gods lay down their weapons and I can forgive every trespass...

At the end of the session, if you feel joy and gratitude for having the chance to take part in your client's healing, that's a good match.

So, when we see someone hurting, we may reach out unconsciously and pick up some of that energy from them. The trouble is, this only harms us; it doesn't help the other person.

In this overcrowded, underwhelming world, any gesture, no matter how slight, expressing that one person recognizes another person is a nice thing indeed.

I let her clasp my hand and stare at me with her big, dark eyes. Because I know that when people comfort you, they're really just comforting themselves.

But there is knowing something and then there is feeling it. For adults, these are two different things. For children, they are one.

Unhappiness breeds unkindness,

Cruelest are the punishments we visit upon ourselves.

It was easy to make fun of Angela. And if it was unkind, which of course it was, it was also a way to ask without asking, Am I like her? No, you're not like her. Okay, phew, you're not like her, either. I don't need to tell you how many women's friendships are built upon this firm foundation.

Because I know that when people comfort you, they're really just comforting themselves.

Because the terms "sufferers" and "victims" are objectionable, I have chosen the term "patient" by default.

When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention.

We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.

When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and the beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention.

When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they 'deserve' it, the good and the beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention.

Because I am a small man, my heart is moved by what's in front of my eyes, not by what the world needs. I just can't abandon what's there in front of me. I want to protect everything I can!

I'm jealous. I suppose, having been with him for decades, we can understand the Earl's feelings.

Nothing is sadder than friends falling out.

It's okay, Casey," Bobby said with annoying sympathy. "The tongue is always the last to know." He spoke with the

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.

My intention has been, often, to say what I had to say in a way that would exemplify it; that would, conceivably, permit the listener to experience what I had to say rather than just hear about it. —John Cage

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.