Quotes About Empathy

Before, I had asked God to right the wrongs and comfort the suffering. Now I know - really know - that God entrusts those tasks to us.

Show kindness to all, be gentle and loving, then all will love you

Having benefited from happy days, should I not share with them the bad days?

Helen Rappaport

quiet, unprovocative, unfailingly polite to one another and to them, and whose occasional sadness bore the stamp of a dignity their jailers could never emulate and were reluctantly compelled to admire'.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

After a few years of marriage, a man can look right at a woman without seeing her — and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

English speakers' guide to learning languages, lesson #3: If in doubt, try saying the same thing again in a different accent (lesson #1 being 'say it louder' and lesson #2 being 'say it more slowly').

To take offense is to give offense.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation.

Love always leads to love.

Cuando te encuentras con alguien, recuerda que se trata de un encuentro santo. 2 Tal como lo consideres a él, así te considerarás a ti mismo. 3 Tal como lo trates, así te tratarás a ti mismo. 4 Tal como pienses de él, así pensarás de ti mismo.

In a spiritual pursuit we desire a collective experience of oneness, not the words of oneness. As we challenge ourselves to see the world through the eyes of Christ, we will see everyone as the same, and great joy will fill our hearts.

He casts out, so Jesus calls us to follow suit, to stop restricting our love to our inner circle: "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?"25 He calls us to love the destitute, the hated foreigner, our oppressor, and even our enemy with the same wholehearted love we currently reserve for our closest companions.

As the Course says, "Everything you teach you are learning. Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love.

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think of him you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself. Whenever two Sons of God meet, they are given another chance at salvation. Do not leave anyone without giving salvation to him and receiving it yourself. For I am always there with you, in remembrance of you.

The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant.

When we smile at someone, we leave a tiny imprint on that person's brain. Somewhere, deep within their motor cortex, their brain is smiling back.

To widen our inner circle and include others who are not like us, we must take a few risks, open our hearts and minds, change our mindset, and be willing to expand our thinking.

Being reflective also means listening to your inner self with new ears. The truth is, we think we've heard our own story so much that we stop listening to it! We become like the people in our lives who we complain don't listen to us. With reflection, we listen freshly to our selves, the way we would like to be listened to. There

You literally want to welcome the times when you know he feels one way and you feel another, so you can practice holding on to what you feel and want anyway, and reaching to connect with him over the gulf between you. There