Quotes About Empathy

Your ideal partner is not someone you never disagree with but someone you are glad to disagree with.

See that old person taking forever in line? That is the future you. Have patience.

A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.

When you keep people waiting they begin to think of all your flaws.

When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can't be copied? Trust, for instance.

Today, I'll look some fuck right in his eyes and squeeze the trigger on him without even giving two shits about it, knowing I'm going to take everything he ever had, ever will have, ever loved, ever loved him away without as much as a second thought and sleep just fine tonight. That should really fuck up the normal guy, but not me.

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

5 Tips to Keep Your Sails out of Your Teenager's Wind Don't take things personally. Stay calm. Listen, but don't fight your teenager's battles. Offer helpful suggestions only when asked. Don't tell your teenager what to do.

How to Get Your Teenager Talking Shut up. Don't ask, "How was your day?" Say calmly in response to a shocking statement, "Hmm. Tell me more about that." Eliminate the word why.

Speaking the truth in love requires two parts--truth and love. Cut either one out of the equation, and you'll cut yourself short. You may be one of the most difficult people for you to love because you know your weaknesses so well. Likewise, you may be one of the most difficult people to tell the truth to because it's so much easier to avoid facing the lies you tell yourself. But put those two elements together in your life--truth and love--and see how much easier they are to take!

you always need to be teaching your children how to be responsible and how to think of others.

Your child needs not only your attention but also a relationship with you.

Because no one is perfect, we all desperately need forgiveness. By forgiving others you allow them to be human, and in doing so it makes you more aware of how human you really are. Think of all the people you've judged because of their behavior. Isn't it true that some of them behave in very similar ways to you? There isn't a person on the face of this earth who doesn't need grace.

Couples who work together learn how to take stress not as a personal attack but as a challenge they can take on together. The key to growth and enrichment in marriage is in discovering ways to convey, "I understand how you feel and I'm going to do my best to meet your needs. I love you, and I'll be around forever.

Everything is more effective when it's done in love rather than anger. Love really is a decision.

Every day your child is assaulted with the pressures of not feeling good enough, pretty enough, athletic enough, etc., to be part of a peer group. What does she get from you? Realistic encouragement, kind truth, and empathy? Or criticism, put-downs, and "you ought to know better than that"?

I hated the Naga, you know." Garul nodded. "I once hated humans, too. Then I learned to understand them instead." That made sense to Owen. "It's hard to hate what you understand.

Release yourself from the prison of hatred. Forgive

When we don't forgive, we trap ourselves in spiritual prisons.

She was not somebody who'd assume other people would want to hear about her unhappiness.

Killing is the ultimate refutation of our own humanity.

And when you are weird, when your surroundings become quiet, you think maybe you aren't quite so fucked up. You think, Why was it so hard before?

That does not surprise me,' Annie said and once again hung up the phone thinking that she had chosen to surround herself with people who were, for lack of a better term, retarded.

It didn't make her love him more, but it made her understand him just a little, which was maybe all that was left in her family.