Quotes About Empathy

Life is worthless unless you give back more than you take.

May I be mindful both making and keeping commitments that they be springboards to liberation, instead of suffering, for all sentient beings.

listen so intently that people bring forth their own wisdom.

The key insight: each entity in a situation represents 100 percent. Each entity in a conflict has 100 percent of the responsibility for resolving the conflict

When things are going well, or when you're feeling particularly good, you can always bring yourself down by manufacturing a stream of worry-thoughts. Once you've brought yourself down by worrying, it's very tempting to inflict those worry-thoughts on others. If we're in the grip of worrying while someone around us isn't, we seem to have an almost uncontrollable urge to criticize that person until he or she jumps into the stream of negativity with us.

Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation you don't want to have. However, the moment you work up the courage to have it, you collect an instant reward in relief as well as open up a flow of communication that will allow you to resolve the situation.

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.

Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome.

I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.

All I wanted was for you to be okay. All I wanted was to help you. I would've done anything ." She drops her chin to her chest. "Yes, I know. You wanted to rescue me." "Damn, Mia. You say that like it's a bad thing.

It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.

I can't imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head—the comfort that would've brought.

I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time.

Tranquila. Si quieres irte, no pasa nada. Todo el mundo quiere que te quedes. Y yo, más de lo que he deseado ninguna otra cosa en mi vida. Pero ése es mi deseo, y comprendo que quizá tú tengas tus motivos para querer otra cosa. Entenderé que decidas irte. No pasa nada si tienes que dejarnos y decides dejar de luchar. No te preocupes por nosotros.

To be the holder of other people's loss is to be the keeper of their love. To share your loss with people is another way of giving your love.