Quotes About Empathy

Humanity...I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards...

All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.

Someone who loves us passionately is motivated to know and understand us to a greater depth than someone with whom our relationship is more casual.

Someone who loves us passionately is motivated to know and understand us to a greater depth than someone with whom our relationship is more casual. What does one often hear from people who are in love? "He (she) understands me as I have never felt understood before.

If I enjoy a fundamental sense of efficacy and worth, and experience myself as lovable, then I have a foundation for appreciating and loving others.

We do not serve a child's development by making self-repudiation the price of our love.

When we feel visible, we feel that the other person and I are in the same reality, the same universe, metaphorically speaking

We cannot understand a person's behavior without understanding the self-concept behind it.

The healthier our self-esteem, the more inclined we are to treat others with respect, benevolence, goodwill, and fairness—since we do not tend to perceive them as a threat, and since self-respect is the foundation of respect for others.

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is in being who they are, not in being better than someone else.

When we convey love, appreciation, empathy, acceptance, respect, we make a child visible. When we convey indifference, scorn, condemnation, ridicule, we drive the child's self into the lonely underground of invisibility.

The answer to this last is simple: In supporting and nurturing the self-esteem of our children, we support and nurture our own.

Empathy and compassion, no less than benevolence and cooperativeness, are far more likely to be found among persons of high self-esteem than among low;

Self-acceptance entails the idea of compassion, of being a friend to myself.

Persons who hate themselves hate others.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

If a proper education has to include an understanding of thinking, it also has to include an understanding of feelings.

The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease, mirrored back from all quarters in the deportment of those about them; they are compelled to inhale the poison of their own breath, in infinite repetition.

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

This shall be the last of my benevolent follies, and I will never be kind to anybody again as long as I live.

Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak!

Her breast, with its badge of shame, was but the softer pillow for the head that needed one.

But this very burden it was, that gave him sympathies so intimate with the sinful brotherhood of mankind; so that his heart vibrated in unison with theirs, and received their pain into itself, and sent its own throb of pain through a thousand other hearts, in gushes of sad, persuasive eloquence. Oftenest persuasive, but sometimes terrible! The people knew not the power that