Quotes About Empathy

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

and hurtful comments and replace them with respectful, safe interactions. You must move from self-care to caring for this Space Between.

The fact of the matter is that both individuals (fusers and isolators) have the identical need to be loved and cared for. It's just that one of them happens to be more in touch with those feelings than the other.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be in relationship?" Because you can't always have both. You can't cuddle up and relax with "being right" after a long day.

Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

He who feels no compassion will become insane.

A gentle word is never lost...It cheers the heart when sorrow-tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.

On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.

For your love given ask no return, none. To love you must love to love.

You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.

the only people you need in your life are the people who needs you in theres

Love isn't about how a person makes me feel but how I treat them.

learned a long time ago that any kind of hate turns inward and ruins a person.

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person—flawed, complex, striving—you've reached beyond stereotype.

Let a man?s talents or virtues be what they may, we feel satisfaction in his society only as he is satisfied in himself. We cannot enjoy the good qualities of a friend if he seems to be none the better for them.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.

Therefore the Sufi attends to his own journey, and does not judge others.

I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.