Quotes About Empathy

The outflow that comes from giving of oneself opens the door to spiritual unfoldment while the attitude of taking locks it.

We all make mistakes. We're human. Hopefully, everyone -- like I am -- will have that attitude. I'm not upset.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

Empathy--the ability to identify with someone else's suffering--is certainly a prerequisite for a genuine apology.

Thus, whatever the medical student has been taught, and even genuinely believes, about the ideals of medicine, the primacy of empathy, the value of the doctor-patient relationship--all of this is swamped once he or she steps into the wards. [...] It's no wonder that empathy gets trounced in the actual world of clinical medicine; everything that empathy requires seems to detract from daily survival.

Burnout also leads to a large swath of physicians who aren't as empathetic toward their patients as they could be.

To empathize with these patients, to put yourself in their shoes, may be a bit too existentially disconcerting. And so doctors unconsciously try to protect themselves by widening the moat between their own good health and their patients' dauntingly mortal conditions

Empathy requires being attuned to the patient's perspective and understanding how the illness is woven into this particular persons' life. Last--and this is where doctors often stumble--empathy requires being able to communicate all of this to the patient.

In general, empathy is easier the more we can identify with someone. When we can genuinely envision ourselves in a situation, it's possible to intuit what that person's suffering might feel like.

It can be rough going to maintain both composure and empathy in these situations, but a doctor's failure to do that is probably the number one reason why patients feel dissatisfied with their physicians and end up doctor-shopping endlessly.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

A man who really likes you and cares about you won't care about your weight one way or another.

Emptying the ocean with a thimble again, our thimbles so tiny, and the ocean of need so huge.

Rape in any form is never okay, no matter who the rapist is.

Don't hate anyone," Beata said quietly. "It's too much work. And it only poisons you.

followed her outside, deeply moved.

May your impact on others be kind, theirs on you always loving, and may you always, always know and remember how infinitely I love you, with all my heart, now and forever.

Não se encontra a felicidade à custa de outra pessoa.

Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.

I'm sorry, Mother," she said quietly. "I didn't realize you cared about him that much." She suddenly understood what she had done and what it had cost her mother. She felt guilty for the first time.

He had enormous compassion for the suffering of others, which often came from having suffered oneself. But he was starting a new life in Denver, and opening his eyes to life again.

It's just when we need it most that we don't reach out for help.

put an arm around her shoulders as they walked

You're always doing too much or too little for them, not there when they want you to be, or too present and driving them insane. You have to let them