Quotes About Empathy

firm believer in knowing people by knowing what they read, holding their favorite words in your mouth, running curious fingers along the spines of their books.

It's nice when people have needs you can meet.

You wouldn't be weird. You would be you in a dress. Smart, sweet, kind, funny you in a dress. It would be okay.

It's irritating when people tell you that you're such good parents you're failing your kid.

There is a price for forgetting and remembering. Forgetting as a form of escape deprives us of what the Five Gifts can offer––humility, patience, empathy, forgiveness, and growth.

When someone we know is hurting, it's our instinct to want them to get better––first, for themselves, and also because our inability to assist leaves us feeling helpless.

Empathy connects us to another person's experience without judgment.

It is our American tradition to come together in times of tragedy. This is how we grow as a people and as a nation.

Learning to locate your own gut response is essential if you are to be able to identify and acknowledge your intuition.

I get a kick out of people who talk like it only happened to them," says lawyer Denis Kelly. "I wonder, 'Didn't you notice that everybody else is going through it?

The gift of empathy opens us up when the tendency to shut down and turn away from the world is often at its greatest.

Soul-to-soul contact sweeps through, like a tsunami, leaving in its wake just this: unconditional surrender and overwhelming gentleness.

Humility helps us come to terms with what we cannot know. Patience takes the edge off when the hurt continues. Empathy is the gift that connects us with others. Forgiving ourselves for having such perfectly human reactions is harder than forgiving whatever caused them.

The unrealistic belief that we are somehow entitled to go through life unmoved by other people's suffering further limits our ability to cope with our own.

Like breaking a leg, a serious injury to the psyche often gets us benched while the regular game of life goes on. It may seem strange that forgiving ourselves for having such perfectly human reactions is harder than forgiving whatever caused them.

Kako da ?ovjek bude zdrav kad moralno pati? Zar može, ako ima osje?aja, ostati miran u ovo naše doba?

Man is forever the same; the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.

You all right? his eyes asked. I'm all right, hers answered.

It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps her men in line!

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

And bear in mind that forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.

But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.