Quotes About Empathy

People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.

And yet always you feel as though you understood perfectly the people and why they do everything as they do.Still you are absolutely severed from them.

It is a habit common among all classes of people to condone the faults of their own kind but to be severe with those of others.

Passing on the good news of Jesus is not equivalent to saying "I'm better than you." Rather, as the famous saying goes, it's like one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests.

Lizzie had come to understand that Sue's mission in life was to say the things that she, or indeed anyone else, wouldn't or couldn't.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." Mother Teresa

At times, being assertive does involve disagreeing with others; however, that disagreement can be done in a way that is not needlessly confrontational and painful.

Most nice people know what is bad in this world, and they feel horrible for those who are wounded and broken. But they don't have the guts to act in any meaningful way.

Christian Nice Girls, because they fear rejection, tend to get their feelings hurt when other people have good boundaries and say things like, "I'm busy right now. Let's look at next month.

Self-sacrificial acts that are motivated by true love always have the other person's best interest at heart

The abuse wasn't about you—it was about your abuser. Your abuser is the one with the problem, not you.

acting nice feels natural—so natural that it's hard to detect its hidden, selfish payoff: It allows women to avoid uncomfortable but necessary conflict

Conflict is the price you pay for intimacy. Read that sentence again, and let it sink in. If you want to connect genuinely with other people, you have to risk conflict by being frank and firm in addition to gracious and loving.

Immature people will not receive loving truth, no matter how gently you offer it. You can agonize over what to say, endlessly rehearse your future conversation, and then deliver your pearls of wisdom in a tone more tender than Florence Nightingale—and in the end, it won't help. The immature want what they want, when they want it, and how they want it, even if having what they want damages you.

Yes, it's crucial to speak the truth in love, but that doesn't mean that you spill your guts

you will be continually disappointed if you expect your husband to intuitively read your mind so that you don't have to own your own feelings

Christian Nice Girls tend to minimize their negative experiences by saying, "What happened to me wasn't that bad. Other people have had it worse.

INFRACANINOPHILE. One who habitually champions the underdog. The creation of American writer Christopher Morley (1890–1957).

While the crisis lasted, people loved each other," she wrote in her autobiography. "It was as though they were united in Christian solidarity.

I honestly see the battle between Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative as the exact same dynamic--there's a group of people in this world that don't like conflict and care about what other people are going through, and then there's this other group of people in the world who hate that. 'Suck it up, man, we're not coddling you, take care of yourself, what's your problem?' It's jocks versus geeks, and I've always referred to life as perpetual high school because it never stops.

You cannot experience joy in life by opposing the ideas or actions of other people. You can experience joy only by remaining faithful to the truth within your own heart. And this truth never rejects others, but invites them in.

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

Isn't that the essence of literature?...Our ability to identify with characters, no matter that they're separated from us by thousands of miles and hundreds of lifetimes. We may have no Mount Vesuvius looming over us. It may not be lava and ashes we fear. But we look at these forms, and we know what they felt.