Quotes About Empathy

When we actively relate to people as rivals or enemies, we foster the false belief that we and they stand independent of one another. The truth is that we bind ourselves to them as if by an invisible tether, and we do so by our negative thoughts and feelings." "Who we are is who we are with others. How they seem to us is a revelation of ourselves.

When it comes to seeking a change of heart, our starting place must include our present situation, with the people we live with right here and now. It is with these very people that we must learn to forgo all taking of offense.

Still is just the right way to be. You rise in the morning to go about your day. You remember a friend who has troubles. You don't quibble with yourself about whether to call her; you don't write a reminder on your Palm Pilot or in your planner to make the call tomorrow. You just call. Simple.

There is no better means of promoting another person's change of heart than allowing our own heart to be changed.

We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.

When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.

Who we are is who we are with others. How they seem to us is a revelation of ourselves.

For to the extent that we act toward others as we feel we might, we open ourselves to their inner reality, and their needs and aspirations seem so important to us as our own. We hope their hopes will be fulfilled and need to see their needs satisfied. Their happiness makes us happy, and we are pained to see them hurt. We resonate with them and delight in their prosperity.

No se puede hallar una justificación para no hacer el bien a los demás a menos que encontremos, o inventemos, alguna razón por la que se lo merecen (un defecto o una característica despreciable que nos obligue a ignorarlos, corregirlos, humillarlos o castigarlos).

Our insensitivity as self-betrayers is best described not as attending to ourselves rather than to others, but rather as attending to others for our sake rather than for their sake.

Our humanity consists in our ability to sense and respect and respond to the humanity of others.

No one's the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective.

she thought how funny that the first thing you didn't need was the words you said.

The man's brow was furrowed, and he said, "Why, I believe forgiveness and love are the same thing. Don't you?

it just seems like men aren't interested in knowing women. Even the decent ones. Everything is lonely after the excitement.

We are always human and we should never forget the burden of being only human

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak from the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

I must learn to love you.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected.