Quotes About Empathy

By releasing my past resentments, I may be able to protect myself more, to relate to that person in a healthier way, and to have more compassion for what drives them to act as they do.

By practicing mindfulness, kindness, and compassion in a steady and committed way, you will begin to recognize the habits of meanness toward self or another when they surface.

Approaching the pain with kindness and compassion is crucial. Meeting pain with anger does not help. Meeting fear or anxiety in oneself with anger or hostility simply multiplies it.

R?kimas - psichologinio pralaim?jimo ženklas. Nepulkite kito žmogaus. Tiesiog pasakykite, koks jo elgesys jus nuli?dino.

Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.

Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.

It seemed like we were supposed to feel sorry for everything that ever happened, ever.

A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.

Shit. What have kids got to be worried about now? If they want trouble, they should go live in Bangladesh.

Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them...People don't save other people. People save themselves.

As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, Baksheesh! Baksheesh! Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand. Mike said, I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops. Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you, Mitchell said. Yeah, well, Mike said, obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta.

Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed.

I do not think the patient truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help.

If this story is written only for myself, then so be it. But it doesn't feel that way. I feel you out there, reader. This is the only kind of intimacy I'm comfortable with. Just the two of us, here in the dark.

Find the Bad Guy means how, when you're arguing with your spouse, both people are trying to win the argument. Who didn't close the garage door? Who left the Bigfoot hair clump in the shower drain? What you have to realize, as a couple, is that there is no bad guy. You can't win an argument when you're married. Because if you win, your spouse loses, and resents losing, and then you lose, too, pretty much.

Na kraju nije bilo bitno koliko su godina imale niti da su bile cure, nego samo da smo ih voljeli, a one nisu ?ule naš zov; ne ?uju nas ni danas, dok ih prorije?ene kose i salastih trbuha iz ku?ice na drvetu dozivamo da iza?u iz soba, kamo su otišle da zauvijek budu same - same u samoubojstvu, a samoubojstvo je dublje od smrti - i gdje mi nikad ne?emo na?i djeli?e da ih nanovo sklopimo.

Elles nous avaient fait participer à leur folie, parce que nous ne pouvions faire autrement.

To feel so much was its own justification.

Though she carried on few extended conversations, we got an idea of her state of mind from the little that got back to us of the little she said.

Obviously, doctor, you've never been a thirteen year-old girl.

Acts like these—simple, humane, conscientious, forgiving—held life together.

Thinking back, we decided the girls had been trying to talk to us all along, to elicit our help, but we'd been too infatuated to listen. Our surveillance had been so focused we missed nothing but a simple returned gaze. Who else did they have to turn to? Not their parents. Nor the neighborhood. Inside their house they were prisoners; outside, lepers. And so they hid from the world, waiting for someone — for us — to save them.

all the healing was done by those of us without wounds.