Quotes About Empathy

It was a truism that people always hated those they had wronged, even if they were prepared to forgive anyone who wronged them.

No human being has the right to put his own desires in front of the happiness of anyone else.

he'd tried to teach her to be as thoughtful of his employees as she was of him and of her friends;

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there?

Whenever I have trouble standing up for myself (it's happened), I think about whether I would tolerate the situation if it were happening to one of my sisters, mother, daughter, or niece. If it's not acceptable for them, it's not acceptable for me.

Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them to do adult things like drive cars, Jet-Ski, and lip-synch. I'm in awe of their little limbs, their large craniums, and their medicine-ball asses. I love the little baby steps they take while shifting their weight from side to side, and the fact that when you knock one over accidentally, he flails like a turtle on its back that can't get up right away.

A homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food. How can they have the nerve to beg for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there? I didn't care if this guy understood English or not. Tell me when you're out of dog, buddy. Then we can talk about splitting a falafel.

Treat yourself the way you treat the person you love most in the world. Get on your own team.

Judging other people had become my way of avoiding judgment of myself, and I had to do better than that.

I define me. No event or person does this. I define me. I decide who I am and how I'm going to behave, and I choose to be better. To look more carefully, to trudge deeper. To think about other people's past and not judge someone for doing or handling something differently than I would. To understand my limitations, my shortcomings - that is my growth edge.

I read somewhere that in order to be of use to others, you need to clean out your own injuries.

My dad's funeral was one of those instances when you're reminded of what it means to show up for people. The tradition

Awesome," I told him. "I felt defensive at first, like I hadn't done anything worth apologizing for, but I recognized that it wasn't about my intention; it was about how my action was received. That my action was unwelcome. I get that now, and it didn't take long for it to click this time.

We checked our bags and got on line with some of our fellow passengers. Judging from the looks of them, it was clear that they were members of a different income bracket from the people I preferred to surround myself with. But since I also wasn't from the income bracket I preferred, I held off on voicing my initial feelings of despair.

I wanted to learn how to forgive

Real generosity is also showing up when you don't feel like it—sacrificing your own happiness in exchange for someone else's.

define me. No event or person does this. I define me. I decide who I am and how I'm going to behave, and I choose to be better. To look more carefully, to trudge deeper. To think about other people's pasts and not judge someone for doing or handling something differently than I would. To understand

Sometimes I just have to rock myself back and forth and say, "You've offended so many people at this point. Don't try to keep track now, girl.

There's nothing worse than ruining a perfectly good moment by thinking someone else will find humor in something they absolutely do not.

Sisters. Only a sister knows how to comfort a sister. Period. End of story. Men can give us a hug or pat us on the back, but only a girl will get another girl off her feet to face the rain.

I got her to laugh and she got me to laugh because that is what sisters do for each other in the depths of their despair --- they cry, they laugh, sing, fight and then go see a movie, in that order.