Quotes About Empathy

Strive to be kind to each other's whirlwind girl. Strive to remember that each one of us is precious and necessary, that drama and wars put out our light. Strive to remember that this is our one, short life, and the choices we make will determine what comes of it.

Who was going to tell these women that they didn't have to live this way? I was.

I didn't blame my mother for needing an escape. I felt guilty for my existence and the burden we were on her.

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.

When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

She belonged to the common type: without ever really thinking it over in detail, she had considered herself a woman like the rest, with no reason for anything to happen to her that didn't also happen to all other women. It was as if this sort of thing happened to someone else, to an absolute someone else, which is to say, as if it didn't happen to anyone.

To read and pray the Psalms is to join the voices of numberless people who too have read and prayed them, have felt their joy, anguish, and indignation.

Don't let your emotional life be controlled by the sin you see in others.

You think you have all the pain you can bear, but yours will be lessened as you bear mine, and mine will be lessened as I bear yours!

Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.

People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.

Leadership is about being better able to listen to the whole than anyone else can.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

Who we are is how we are in relation to others