Quotes About Empathy

Quit accumulating points for being right!

truth and reread it daily: "When you seek happiness for yourself it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others you will find it yourself." Practice making meaningful

Here is the guts of both self-and other-directed love. Never confuse your self-worth (which is a given) with your behavior, or the behavior of others toward you.

When you have a choice to be right or to be kind, always pick kind. Living from your highest spiritual sense is the essence of what it means to be a self-actualized person.

You can't give away what you don't have. If you don't have love for yourself, then you can't be loving to others.

self-actualized person has a strong desire for privacy; vehemently resists enculturation, but always has a freshness of appreciation; and has a genuine desire to help the human race. Yet "when it comes down to it, in certain basic ways he is like an alien in a strange land. Very few really understand him, however much they may like him.

to see the unfolding of God in everyone and when it comes to external appearances, to be a humanistic teacher who wouldn't even notice.

Watch your thoughts, and when they're anything other than compassionate, change them!

when you judge another person, you do not define them. You define yourself as someone who needs to judge others.

Eliminate as many judgments of others in your thoughts as possible. The simplest, most natural way to accomplish this is to see yourself in everyone.

gave up eating meat from slaughtered animals years ago, because when I ate that meat, I was also consuming fear.

Amor:capacidade e disposição para permitir que aqueles que você ama façam suas próprias escolhas, sem insistir que satisfaçam a você.

Use fewer words; commit yourself to long periods of listening; and eliminate giving advice, meddling, and participating in gossip.

When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind

Offer a prayer when you hear an ambulance's or police car's siren.

live in ways that encourage cooperation and a spirit of love

Lembre-se que o que incomoda você não é o que as outras pessoas fazem, e sim sua reação a isso. Em vez de dizer Eles deviam fazer isso, diga: Queria saber por que me incomodo com o que eles estão fazendo.

Every person you interact with should feel the inner glow that comes from being appreciated, particularly for the ways in which they express their creativity. A core theme, which strengthens the flow of the power of intention, is wanting for others as much as you intend for yourself.

The highest kindness is to give without condition.

You'll only give away what you have in your heart, and

This is the only thing that you need to do for vision, happiness, release from pain…. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations…I am responsible for what I see. I chose the feelings I experience…

Begin to see yourself as a person who notices instead of judges.

Tell me what you're for, and I'll show you what's going to expand in a positive way. Tell me what you're against, and I'll show you what's going to expand in a destructive way.

Listen more and speak less