Quotes About Empathy

When we are centered on giving, we also receive, because our personal anxieties begin to dissipate from our thoughts. When we recognize that what is in the best interests of another is also of complete benefit to us, we gain inner tranquillity, if only briefly, because for that moment we have left our personal hell behind. The

Spend as much time as you can before tomorrow ridding yourself of all the past, painful guilty, fearful thoughts and experiences you have had with your son.

The love in us can unite with the love in others, but two bodies can never become one.

I believe that the purpose of God's guidance is to show us how to release our minds from fear so we may know peace and be truly kind and sensitive to others, which we cannot do when we are fear-dominated. Both

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

No matter how strange it may look, most people are actually trying to be helpful.* That

Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you've read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.

When you're not terribly smart, it helps to be a good listener.

Your most powerful method of helping other people is to help yourself.

Ay, you've already seen that you and your master aren't quite at home in this world, at least not like before.' Terence nodded slowly. 'It'll only get stronger, too,' Robin continued. 'Soon you'll find yourself looking into people's eyes to see if they've been there. And once you find someone who has, you'll greet him as a long-lost friend and take him to your heart.

Con frecuencia los padres no se dan cuenta del impacto que tiene sobre sus hijos lo que dicen o hacen. Años más tarde, los adultos recuerdan de manera vívida el efecto que tuvo sobre ellos algún aspecto de la conducta de sus padres. De hecho, es posible que estén haciendo algunas de las mismas cosas con sus propios hijos sin que logren percatarse de ello.

es igual de fácil y toma el mismo tiempo decir, "Lo siento, mi vida. En este momento no tengo tiempo", en lugar de "¡¿Qué no puedes ver que estoy ocupado?! ¡Deja de molestar!". Con los niños, un sencillo acto de cortesía puede hacer mucho.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361

How little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst.

I simply ask you to see that there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is to get up, and go on with the life that is set in front of us, and try and do the good of which our hands are capable for all the people who come in our way...

For the hour in which I am able to lose myself in someone else's thoughts is the greatest relief I can find from the burden of my own memories.

You sat in your nice little flat all through our war and watched us, bleeding all over the TV news. And you thought, 'How awful!' and then you got up and made yourself another cup of gourmet coffee." I flinched when he said that. It was a pretty accurate description.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all.

Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

The true opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate, bad as it is, at least treats the neighbour as a thou, whereas indifference turns the neighbour into an it, a thing. This is why we may say that there is actually one thing worse than evil itself and that is indifference to evil. In human relations the nadir of morality, the lowest point as far as Christian ethics is concerned, is manifest in the phrase, T couldn't care less.'