Quotes About Empathy

I could sit here and tell you that I was the perfect child that followed all the rules and never got in trouble, but I would be lying up a fierce storm. Engaging with the younger you who made those mistakes helps you give some grace to the children of today who are making their own.

In the spirit of disclosure, I am a professional counselor, but I have often spent considerable time on the couch myself. Because counseling helped me, I now help others. Helped people help people.

To normalize help-seeking, it is essential for us to speak out about counseling. Sharing the effect that counseling has had on our lives with others serves to normalize the practice.

Sign of an abusive system: getting angry at other's real needs.

Selflessness is humility. ... humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free.

There is one advantage to realizing that you're never going to get it right: you do begin to stop expecting everyone else to get it right too, which makes for less frustration when other people turn out to be just as human as you are.

I'm really not the cold fish everyone thinks I am.

Rhyme couldn't remember what he looked like. From his voice he sounded fit and athletic, but then Rhyme supposed he himself might seem like an Olympian to someone who couldn't see his destroyed body.

Maree may have noted that I said "wife" and not "ex," which imparted some information to her. She was smarter than the package suggested. She frowned her sympathy, which I didn't respond to.

Harvard biologist and entomologist E. O. Wilson's coined term "Biofilia," by which he means the emotional affiliation humans feel toward other living organisms

How well they all knew each other now, he thought. In twelve weeks James felt he had come to know more about these three men than any of the so-called friends he'd known for twenty years. For the first time he understood why his father continually referred back to friendships formed during the war with men he normally would never have met. He realised how much he was going to miss Stephen when he returned to America. Success was, in fact, going to split them up.

Like a blind man, unaware of race or religion, he quickly discovered that prejudice was often taught at the breakfast table.

Some people stand by you in your darkest hour, while others walk away; only a select few march toward you and become even closer friends.

sometimes an abundance of sympathy can be more overwhelming than solitude. Giles

Only Sebastian really knew what she was going through. Her demons, as she called them. Jessica never stopped chattering whenever they were on their own, but the moment she became the centre of attention, like a tortoise she slipped back into her shell, hoping no one would notice her.

Some people stand by you in your darkest hour, while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

that often the onlooker suffers even more than the participant.

sometimes an abundance of sympathy can be more overwhelming than solitude.

No American must be allowed to die because he cannot afford to live.

Some people stand by you in your darkest hour, while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends. Once

Kindness here means friendliness, or openheartedness. It enables you to welcome experience. Compassion is usually associated with feelings of empathy and concern for pain or suffering in another.

Imagine speaking to this person in words like: "For any hurt or harm you have caused me, intentional or unintentional, I offer forgiveness.

Speaking especially kindly, use words like: "For any hurt or harm I have caused to you or in this situation, I offer myself forgiveness.

forgiveness actually benefits us more than them!