Quotes About Empathy

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

He says that hope is a very, very fragile thing and that when you steal it from someone, it can be like stealing their soul. He's convinced that taking away hope is much worse than giving someone the truth, and that those were the alternatives he was forced to choose between.

I mean, does anyone ever talk about why people are crossing? I can promise you it's not with some grand ambition to come here and ruin everything for the gringo chingaos. People are desperate, man.

It's a shame about her, isn't it? But when I see you with her, the two of you seem to be having actual conversations. Like real people.

No existe ningún hombre en el mundo que merezca que un corazón de mujer se destroce por él. Un hombre, aún cuando se cree enamorado apasionadamente, encontrará siempre otra mujer para consolarse. Una mujer nunca. Sissi, Emperatriz de Austria.

Después de haberlos visto personalmente, comencé a cambiar mi actitud frente a ellos. Empecé a compadecerlos porque eran seres humanos...Concebí incluso la idea de dejarles escapar o hacer algo para liberarles. Sobre la familia Imperial Rusa.

Cuando no se tiene un buen amante, es necesario tener un buen psicoanalista: igual que un buen abogado, o un buen dentista.

Some of them were confused and angry, but given the same circumstances, I was convinced that I would have turned out just like them. It was the difference in where we were born, and to whom, that separated us---not the difference of who we were.

We have a Savior Who took on our humanity to take on our shame. We have a God Who knows the pain of betrayal, abandonment, humiliation, and violence, Who shows us that wounds can be healed and can be purified. It's okay if your past is messy.

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Oh, get off the cross!" V shouted when I shared my thoughts with her on the phone. "We need the wood!

What I do know is that love, real love, true unconditional love, transcends age, race, and religious beliefs. It sees the good, focuses on the good, and constantly emphasizes it.

We don't always recognize mercy when we see it. It isn't always what we want or think we need, but it's there. It's here.

Make your fellow men know by your actions in the days when you can reach them and help them, you appreciate their real worth. It will solve every problem of living.

I happen to like Philippians 4:6, but I also don't like how it is used as a "clobber verse" to make anxious people feel like they're doing something wrong or, even worse, that there is something wrong about them. As with most clobber verses, in this situation it is being used out of context.

The more a community can hold one another's anxieties, the closer it becomes, which further grows its collective holding capacity, which draws people further in, and so on and so forth. New doors are opened, the extraordinary is made ordinary, and we discover our best selves.

There's one highly effective intervention only you can deliver in a dosage more potent than any secular medical professional could deliver: you can provide acceptance. Radical, loving, compassionate acceptance. The "Jesus touching the leper" kind of acceptance. The acceptance that is expressed with hugs, reassuring pats, and sometimes just the kind of silent but loving physical presence of a parent that anxious children can feel in their bones.

There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.

We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.

nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.

Reconciliation occurs between equals.