Quotes About Empathy

To cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness, remember that Rule 2 is: Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

PRINCIPLE 5 Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

PRINCIPLE 8 Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone.

It's also likely you would come to appreciate them more.

I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

In talking with people, DON'T begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing—and keep on emphasizing—the things on which you agree.

I taught President Roosevelt how to handle a car with a lot of unusual gadgets, but he taught me a lot about the fine art of handling people.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Every day do a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

Um grande homem demonstra sua grandeza pela forma como trata os pequenos", disse o filósofo escocês Thomas Carlyle.

get the other person's point of view and see things from his or her angle, as well as from our own.

Kaiser into a staunch friend, imagine what humility and praise can do for you and me in our daily

If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous.

you will become sympathetic to his feelings and ideas.

Your smile is often the first messenger of your goodwill.

You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.

la bondad, la amabilidad y la apreciación para con el prójimo puede hacerle cambiar de idea más velozmente que todos los regaños y amenazas del mundo.

don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were in your position, I would feel just as you do.

Rule 1 is: Don't, don't nag!!!

When she wanted to tell me her thoughts, feelings, ideas, I interrupted with more orders. I began to realize that she needed me—not as a bossy mother, but as a confidante, an outlet for all her confusion about growing up.

The law is this: Always make the other person feel important. John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature; and William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." As I have already pointed out, it is this urge that differentiates us from the animals. It is this urge that has been responsible for civilization itself.

We are not empathetic creatures naturally, so we must work at it.

pero sé que realmente me quieres porque cada vez que deseo hablarte sobre cualquier cosa, tú dejas de hacer aquello que estás haciendo, y me escuchas.