Quotes About Empathy

I'd been taught not to like myself,because the people around me didn't, for whatever reason like me.

You don't get to tell people how to love you; you get to choose if you want to participate in the way they love.

The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership.

I have never met leadership without a sense of humor; this ability to stand outside oneself and one's circumstances, to see things in perspective and laugh. It is a great safety value! You will never lead others far without the joy of the Lord and its concomitant, a sense of humor.3

To get at the root of problems, a leader must develop into a skillful listener. Too many strong personalities are compulsive talkers. "He won't listen to me," complains a missionary. "He gives the answer before I have had a chance to state the problem.

Neither rites nor rituals, neither creed nor ceremonies are needed to improve the condition of the world. All that is needed is love for one another.

The same Christ Jesus is not the same for everyone, because people are different. He has one profile for the poor and another for the rich, one profile for the sick and another for the healthy.

We experience what life and death really are when we love, for in love we go out of ourselves, become capable of happiness and at the same time can be hurt.

We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.

When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes.

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Ik ben de enige die al de vrouwen die ze geweest is in haar kan zien. Soms raak ik haar dan aan, raak ik ze allemaal tegelijk even zachtjes aan.

Justice requires acute perception of what is really due to the other person; in

Even a liar's speech expresses something true; it may not tell us the state of the world, but it tells us the state of his heart.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

Without respect, there is no love … for long, for anyone, but a fool.

So everybody who talks about homosexuals as a damnation better look in a mirror and try to heal their own selves. Who they call homosexuals do, at least, act out of their love. That's better than the hate a whole lot of people act out of.

Always sighed deep. "Don't talk to your mama like that son. I … I could call you them same names … but I ain't.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.