Quotes About Empathy

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.

With people, too, you constantly think, 'If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better.' They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.

Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them. Blanche Somethings you forgive, somethings you never forgive. Kate

Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

In this life, we don't meet many people who truly love us, who accept us for who we are, who put us before themselves.

I used to think that a good relationship meant always getting along. But the secret, I realize, is that when one person shuts down or throws a fit, the other needs to stay in the adult ego state. If both people descend to the wounded child or adapted adolescent, that's when all forces of relationship drama and destruction are unleashed.

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.

I wish she were receptive enough to discuss what I learned, but you can't expect the same person who wounded you to heal you. So

Perhaps the people who hurt you the most when they leave are the ones you shouldn't have been with anyway, because they do it without compassion.

No matter what the situation may be, the right course of action is always compassion and love.

Never underestimate your own capacity to care. "I

Once you realize that most people are just like you—and that they're actually seeking your approval—you'll start to become socially fearless.

Most things are not about you, though they do reveal how you think about yourself.

The secret to life is not to take it personally. The things people do and say are not always

2. As long as at least one partner is in the adult functional at any given time, most—if not all—arguments can be avoided.

She's still making me go over every detail of the affair. And, you know, whenever I check my email, everything's in the read folder because she's already gone through it all." "That's a horrible way to live—for you and for her. You know what Lorraine calls it?" "No." "Pain shopping. She's not getting healed by that. She's just getting retraumatized.

What's helped with saying no to others is asking myself first if I'm saying yes out of guilt or fear. If so, then it's a polite no.

I felt the heat of her body and was reminded of how much I love human contact. Pets like to be petted. It isn't sexual when a dog or cat begs for physical affection. People are the same way: we need touch. But we're so sexually screwed up and obsessed that we get nervous and uncomfortable when another person touches us.

dehumanizing the opposite sex

Talking in statement form is the way old friends speak to each other. Statements are the mode of the intimate, the confident, and the giving. They invite others to share and make perfect metaphysical sense.

love is not about finding the right person. It's about becoming the right person.

Relationships are like divining rods for locating one's faults and weaknesses.

Unconditional love and acceptance is one of the most basic needs of all humanity.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that is left on the heel that crushed the violet.