Quotes About Empathy

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride

I've come to the horrible realization that my wife has too much self-respect.

What I've learned is that preaching at someone is a one-way convo leaving one side feeling self righteous & the other side misunderstood.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone and hurt them to the bone, you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.

Self-sacrifice is never entirely unselfish, for the giver never fails to receive.

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone elses eyes.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.

In order to understand others, you must understand yourself first.

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

You can only control your own actions. Not other peoples reactions

Do the world a favor stop cutting your arms, and slit your throat.

Imagine If we obsessed about the things we loved about ourselves.

Pray as if everything depends on God and work as if everything depends on you. To handle yourself use your brain and to handle others use your heart.

Before loving someone, make sure you're loving yourself enough and treating yourself with respect before others.

Don't hurt someone with your ego, but never let anyone hurt your self respect.

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience

He who sacrifices his heart, in silence, for the happiness of others, is indeed the strongest man.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.

Modern science is still trying to produce a tranquilizer more effective than a few kind words

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease

Accept me at my strongest, support me at my weakest.