Quotes About Empathy

Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We reap what we sow. If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us like bread cast upon the waters; but if we send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., we will reap the results in our own lives.

For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, then look to those who have been given less.

If you love me, help me. All I want is someone to love me.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested "in how they feel and in their point of view.

Like a trained surgeon who is careful where he cuts, parents, too, need to become skilled in the use of words. Because words are like knives. They can inflict, if not physical, many painful emotional wounds.

It is a deep comfort to children to discover that their feelings are a normal part of the human experience. There is no better way to convey that than to understand them. When

Empathy, a parent's ability to understand what a child is feeling, is an important and valuable ingredient of child rearing.

In criticism parents attack children's personality attributes and their character. In guidance we state the problem and a possible solution. We say nothing to the child about himself or herself. When

Unfortunately, when parents are confronted with children's misbehavior, they are unaware that usually disturbing feelings fuel that behavior. Feelings must be dealt with before behavior can be improved. As

A limit must be stated in a manner that is deliberately calculated to minimize resentment, and to save self-respect. The very process of limit-setting, of saying "no," should convey authority, not insult. It should deal with a specific event, not with a developmental history.

An empathic response that mirrors to children their upset feelings and expresses the parents' sympathy and understanding is effective in changing children's angry moods. The

Where do we start if we are to improve communication with children? By examining how we respond. We even know the words. We heard our parents use them with guests and strangers. It is a language that is protective of feelings, not critical of behavior. What

Behind many childhood questions is the desire for reassurance. The best answer for such questions is the assurance of our abiding relationship. When a child tells of an event, it is sometimes helpful to respond not to the event itself, but to the feelings around it.

When we are understood, we feel loved.

They want us to understand what is going on inside them, what they are feeling at that particular moment.

In discipline whatever generates rage should therefore be avoided. Anything that enhances selfconfidence and respect for one's self and others is to be fostered.

It doesn't matter from which ethnicity you belong to; but always be like bounded body and never let anyone suffer in pain. Lets throw hate away. Lets all think for just five minutes; what will happen if we are disunited and United?!

It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time... That's when you become inhuman.

I happen to believe that the overwhelming majority of people in the world are law-abiding, loving, and caring. They just don't get any publicity for it.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.