Quotes About Empathy

The God inside you is the same as the one inside them.

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.

Spread love and understanding," Reacher said. "Use force if necessary.

Leaders must be good listeners. It's rule number one, and it's the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.

An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

She's keyed up," Duncan said as Eve pulled up to the driveway. "You better talk to her, woman-to-woman." "Good idea, because you know we don't even have to speak to each other," Eve said, putting the car into park. "Our uteruses can communicate telepathically.

I understand your pain, but you're disclosing too much and making it harder to do our jobs.

Our cleaning lady? Of course not. That would be inappropriate and extremely offensive. Why would I dare to assume she didn't want her baby? The thought never crossed my mind and, frankly, I'm surprised it crossed yours.

The truth, that I haven't heard from you since your press conference. What kind of daughter doesn't call her mother after a lunatic blows his brains out in her living room?

People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.

Take care. For yourself, for those you have carried, for the universe, for your deer, for your heart, for your angels, for those you love. There has never been a more selfless selfish act. Take care.

grief is not like clinical depression, schizophrenia, or anxiety, which can be diagnosed and treated. The grieving need someone to say "I see you, I hear you, I understand you are hurting and you can tell me more.

I've learned that even people with mental illness have stigmas about mental illness.

It was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

The heartbreak of this planet is healing. It may not seem so, but it is. Heartbreak is healing on a planetary level. That is why hearts are breaking. So, lead with your hearts both for yourself and for others. Where you share your love with others, you lead with your hearts. None of you acknowledge yourselves enough for this. And where you lead with your hearts, you the lead the way for others to open their hearts.

Our first task therefore is to try to grasp what the concept of the enemy really means. The enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the enemy always hates us for a reason, it is his reason and not ours. He does not hate us for our faults any more than for our virtues. He sees a different world from ours, and in the world he sees, we are his enemy. This is hard for us to comprehend, but we must if we are to grasp what the concept of the enemy means.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

No, your job as a leader is to inspire and to galvanize, not to share your distraught thoughts. You make your people dispirited.

The only thing I know now is that we're all connected, everyone of us, even people we don't know.

She smiled at him, not knowing how to say - you saved me. Instead, she said, "You must get well." Book 2, p188

Black Students, Middle Class Teachers by Jawanza Kunjufu.