Quotes About Empathy

Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen.

Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.

How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?.

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.

The courage to care about your people, your clients, and your career.

To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen.

Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.

Sharing your story is a courageous step towards healing your own heart.

A change of heart is the essence of all other change and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.

I had a friend, who was abused by her dad. I made a vow to myself that I'd never hurt my daughter.

Bruno: "Why do you wear pajamas all day?" Shmuel: "The soldiers. They took all our clothes away." Bruno: "My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away."

My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, "Make me feel important."

My dad is one of the funniest people I know. He's the sort of man who can make you laugh just by reading out of a telephone directory... He's a spastic.

Even with my daughter now, I kind of know how my dad feels.

My dad would always say, "When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?"

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.