Quotes About Empathy

It's been said that great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others. That's what gossip does. It makes people small. There really is no upside to gossip. It diminishes the person being talked about. It diminishes the person who is saying unkind things about others, and it even diminishes the listener. That's why you should avoid not only spreading gossip but also being a recipient of it.

Comprendí que ayudar a los demás, ¡me ayudaba a mí!».

People naturally see themselves in the light of their intentions, but they measure others according to their actions.

Jesuit theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others." Anyone who has unselfishly helped another person knows this to be true.

The way people see others is a reflection of themselves: If I am a trusting person, I will see others as trustworthy. If I am a critical person, I will see others as critical. If I am a caring person, I will see others as compassionate.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution." —Kahlil Gibran

GIVE FIRST, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES MAY BE.

When you don't want to change, you look for differences in others. When you are willing to change, you look for similarities.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

No se pueden construir relaciones con personas que nos perciben de manera negativa. La confianza es el adhesivo que mantiene unida a la gente.

You can think the world of others, but if you never actually tell them, then you don't really help them.

If you are willing to make success about giving rather than gaining, you will find your life to be greatly rewarding.

listener's lean.

Para ser eficaces, los líderes necesitan conectarse con la gente. Porque se debe llegar al corazón de la gente antes de pedirles una mano.

produce second-mile followers. If you go out of your way to care about others and help them, then they will go out of their way to help you when you ask them to.

if you have a positive, joyous outlook, the joy you share will be returned to you.

our goal should be to treat others better than they treat us

Sometimes the best thing we can do for someone else is to hold our tongue. When tempted to give advice that's not wanted, to show off, to say "I told you so," or to point out another's error, the best policy is to say nothing. As nineteenth-century British journalist George Sala advised, we should strive "not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

No es necesario decir que podemos interesarnos por las personas sin liderarlas, pero no podemos liderar a las personas sin interesarnos por ellas. La gente no le seguirá si no puede llevarse bien con usted. Así son las cosas.

While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

She came right up to me and put her snow-white hand on my arm. You poor boy, she murmured, you poor boy. I'm not a boy, and I'm not poor, and I wished the hell she would get away. She has a clever face, but I felt in it, that night, the force of a great sadness and great malice. I see a rope around your neck, she said sadly.

Francis asks Julia if the children couldn't have their dinner earlier. Julia's guns are loaded for this. She can't cook two dinners and lay two tables. She paints with lightning strokes that panorama of drudgery in which her youth, her beauty, and her wit have been lost. Francis says that he must be understood; he was nearly killed in an airplane crash, and he doesn't like to come home every night to a battlefield. Now Julia is deeply concerned.

Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor. Evarts Malloy was very thin. He had worked as a bus driver and he stooped a little

Fellatio is the nicest thing one human being can do for another.