Quotes About Empathy

Everyone is interesting. If you're ever bored in a conversation, the problem's with you, not the other person.

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes." —MARCEL PROUST

If you only engage with people about problems, pretty soon, you'll become the problem for them," and I agree with that.

therapy for a condition called codependence, which is a neural wiring issue that tricks me into being unable to tolerate the discomfort, or perceived discomfort, of others.

When we fail to reason honestly, we have lost our connection to the world and to one another.

If you want to help people, ask why they are in so much pain that they are driven (there's that word again) to escape from it through ultimately self-harming habits or substances.

How do I become less competitive in order that I can become more successful?

The truth is that the pain of broken trust and betrayed friendship is simply the cost of caring and deeply connecting to others.

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children . . . to leave the world a bit better . . . to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded."—Ralph Waldo Emerson

En igualdad de condiciones, para incrementar tu felicidad, lo único que hay que hacer es desearle a cualquier otra persona elegida al azar que sea feliz.

Looking somebody in the eye . . . is often the antidote for what is ailing us.

Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one.'"—C. S. Lewis

Two Words for Conflict Resolution "[My mentor's] life advice to me, when I'm going into a conflict or a difficult situation with my parents or an argument with Neil [Gaiman, her husband] is, 'Say less.' That's it. Just say less.

hay algo que puedas hacer por ella? Y que lo vieras como una manera de beneficiarla a ella y no a ti. El

NVC has a magical way of instantly defusing potential conflicts with anyone, from a partner to a server to a friend to someone at work. One of its many great premises is that no two people's needs are ever in conflict. It's only the strategies for getting those needs met that are in conflict.

cuando juzgas a los demás sólo es una manera de no mirarnos a nosotros mismos;

siempre que te encuentres con alguien le digas en tu cabeza "te quiero

No matter what the situation may be, the right course of action is always compassion and love." (paraphrased from one of his teachers, Barbara McNally)

Be kind to yourself in your own mind. Let your mind show you the same kindness that you aspire to show others.

Timothy Ferriss

But the truth is, you can't really earn trust over time with people without being somewhat vulnerable [first].

It just requires you to gives lots of damns, which not enough people do.

while the world is a gold mine, you need to go digging in other people's heads to unearth riches.

Los libros están para mostrar tu corazón, para mostrar tu alma, y para decirle a cada uno de tus seguidores, de tus lectores: No estás solo.»