Quotes About Empathy

He'd heard communication described as two monologues clashing, with each person waiting for their turn to speak instead of actively listening.

First. Love ought to manifest itself more by deeds than by words.

Long before love is a corporate virtue that improves team performance, it is a personal leadership stance. The love-driven leader possesses the vision to see and engage others as they are, not through the cultural filters, prejudices, or narrow-mindedness that diminishes them.

You were not alone. All that time. You were lonely

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan

Tip, if I had a ticket to heaven and you didn't have one too, I would give mine away and go to hell with you. Ronald Reagan

My priority is to see that some people don't suffer for the good of others.

A sister smiles when one tells one's stories — for she knows where the decoration has been added.

Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.

Arkady looked at the other man. he felt that he was actually seeing him as a physical being for the first time.....He tried to imagine that body with Bella, with any woman, and found the idea...not repulsive exactly, but incomprehensible. How would it work exactly? And how would either of them, knowing nothing of their lover's body, needs and desires, ever be able to satisfy the other?

If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about my product or service we'll have a meaningful conversation about it and how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don't feel anything. Nothing at all

It's not just how many people are feelin' you, it's who is feeling you.

The saddest thing is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken some day. And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better.

Point is, we hurt each other a lot. And I know it, now. And I'm sorry I hurt you so bad you looked somewhere else.

as author and scientist Dr. Jonathan Balcombe wrote in his 2010 book Second Nature, animals' thoughts and feelings are far more complex than humans previously imagined. "Animals are conscious beings with feelings," Balcombe noted, "yet our treatment of them remains medieval.

No matter what kind of backgrounds two men are from, if you go, "Hey, man, women are crazy," you've got a friend.

Guys, never ask a woman how many men she slept with, cause you don't wanna know. Just be happy you're fucking her now.

You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense

DON'T RAPE WOMEN. YOU MAY GET AIDS.

I tell her how sorry I am, and as I speak my words feel inadequate and pathetic.

So much lies in our communications with one another--even the most fleeting and careless of insults can wound us, so you can imagine that if you feel a physical response to a passing curse from a stranger on the highway, pronouncements of failure and worthlessness from a parent or loved one will strike sharply deep within you.

If you didn't cry in season four's episode 'The Constant,' something is wrong with you; you were either distracted or, worse, it is possible you have no soul.

You're tired of hearing about racism? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it." ~ Jon Stewart

There are people that I believe shouldn't like me, and if they did, I'd be sad. ~ Jon Stewart