Quotes About Empathy

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Don't tell people about your problems...90% of them don't care, and the other 10% are glad you got them?

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside you're twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands 'cause I see you. I'll be you mirror, reflect what you are. I'll Be Your Mirror

I think it's important that people don't feel alone.

I'll be your mirror, Reflect what you are, In case you don't know. I'll Be Your Mirror

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students' hearts forever.

We'll talk to them in Spanish and if they don't understand us, we'll say it louder and slower, and shake our heads because how stupid can you be not to be able to speak such a simple language.

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.

So the person who has been forgiven much has much room to forgive others.

Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone. —ROMANS 12:18 NLT

Una ira con razón, pero expresada de forma indebida. Realmente tienes algo por lo cual estar enojado, pero la estás expresando en toda clase de maneras indebidas. Tu ira destruye puentes. Le hace daño a la gente que te rodea, y te daña a ti también.

Do not do wrong to a person to pay him back for doing wrong to you. Or do not insult someone to pay him back for insulting you. But ask God to bless that person. Do this, because you yourselves were called to receive a blessing. —1 PETER 3:9 ICB

the reason God tells us not to judge is that we do not know the raw material that other people are struggling with.

Rather than actively love our neighbor, we unselfishly allow him to live whatever way he wants to, even if his life choices are self-destructive.  Had Lewis lived today, I think he would have said that the reigning virtue is not unselfishness but tolerance—a pseudo-virtue that also manifests itself, not in active charity, but in a negative acquiescence to the "rights" of others.

They have understood of others' lives what they were capable of understanding. But even if it were like that, it would be otherwise.

If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.

Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary sensation is nonetheless one of embarrassment in the presence of the unspeakable and a guilty gratitude that it is not yet their fate.

There are times," I declared, "when I believe the dead haunt us because we love them too little. We forget them, you see; we don't mean to, but we do.

Lijden is het grootste geven. Te geven aan wie men liefheeft, het leed van zijn lijdende ziel, is de grootste gift, die te geven is.

At its most basic level, psychotherapy is an interpersonal learning environment similar in many ways to proper parenting. In both, we tend to learn best when supported by a nurturing relationship with an empathic other, while being encouraged to confront life's challenges

To establish a bridge of attunement, we rely on many neural systems that receive and send social and emotional information. We use all of this information to create theories about what is on the minds of others.

Clients with painful experiences and frightening symptoms are accustomed to living in a world where others avoid and reject them. Our ability to remain empathically connected to them through the expression of their suffering sets the stage for therapy to be a qualitatively different relationship experience–one where they are accepted, pain and all.

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.