Quotes About Empathy

Radite ono što želite. Radite ono što vas odražava, predstavlja, kao ve?u viziju vašeg ja. Ako želite da se ose?ate loše, ose?ajte se tako. Ali nemojte da osu?ujete niti okrivljujete jer ne znate zašto se nešto doga?a, niti sa kojim ciljem. Upamtite slede?e: to što okrivljujete ?e okriviti vas, i to što osu?ujete - jednog dana ?ete postati.

Ultimately, all real communication is about truth. And ultimately, the only real truth is love. That is why, when love is present, so is communication. And when communication is difficult, it is a sign that love is not fully present.

Ultimately, all real communication is about truth. And ultimately, the only real truth is love. That is why, when love is present, so is communication. And when communication is difficult, that is a sign that love is not fully present.

Choosing to be God-like does not mean you choose to be a martyr. And it certainly does not mean you choose to be a victim.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.

You can _know_ yourself to be generous, but unless you _do_ something which displays generosity, you have nothing but a concept. You can _know_ yourself to be kind, but unless you _do_ someone a kindness, you have nothing but an idea about yourself.

Give yourself abundant pleasure, that you may have an abundant pleasure to give others.

All of your life you have been taught that it is better to give than to receive. Yet you cannot give what you do not have. This is why self-gratification is so important—and why it is so unfortunate that it has come to sound so ugly. Obviously, self-gratification at the expense of others is not what we're talking about here. This is not about ignoring the needs of others. Yet life should also not have to be about ignoring your own needs.

there is great healing in acknowledging "mine is not a better way, mine is merely another way.

We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.

I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.

Noelle: But I look like a freak now. Craig: I told you, Noelle, everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others. But people aren't going to look at you and run away. They're going to look at you and think that they can talk to you, and that you'll understand, and that you're brave, and that you're strong. And you are. You're brave and strong. p.366-367

I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn't know I had that power.

If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed, Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.

Dad nods, looks me dead in the eyes; slowly and regretfully, he banishes all the smiling and joking from his face, and for once he's just my dad, watching his son who has fallen so low.

Yeah, and she's really screwed up, as screwed up as me, but I don't look at that as an insult. I look at that as a chance to connect.

Don't kill yourself, okay?

Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?

You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed

I learn something I didn't know about the human body : if your mom cries, you cry.

Well, my dad died when I was three." Shoot. That's right. Some of us have actual things to complain about.

Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on yourself." "Okay." "Only then does healing take place." "All right.