Quotes About Empathy

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. Even if others lie to you, it is okay. They are lying to you because they are afraid. They are afraid you will discover that they are not perfect.

Someone can intentionally send emotional poison, and if you don't take it personally, you will not eat it. When you don't take the emotional poison, it becomes even worse to the sender, but not in you.

Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.

Sva su ljudska bi?a pripovjeda?i koji pri?aju sa svojega vlastitog, jedinstvenog stajališta. Kad to shvatimo, više ne?emo osje?ati potrebu da svoju pri?u name?emo drugima ili branimo ono u što vjerujemo. Umjesto toga, sve ?emo ljude promatrati kao umjetnike koji imaju pravo stvarati vlastitu umjetnost.

Don't take anything personally

Let me love and accept myself without judgment, because when I judge myself, I find myself guilty, and then need to punish myself.

How many times have you hooked other people's attention, and spread poison about your loved one in order to make your opinion right? Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. It is not necessarily true.

Personal Importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

Nothing other people do is because of you.

First, we need to forgive our parents, our brothers, our sisters, our friends, and God. Once you forgive God, you can finally forgive yourself. Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is key.

Prawdziwa miÅ'o?? akceptuje drugÄ… osobÄ™ takÄ…, jakÄ… ona jest, nie próbuje jej zmienia?. Równie? twój partner powinien ciÄ™ kocha? takim, jaki jesteÅ›, by wcale nie chciaÅ' ciÄ™ zmienia?.

We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.

People ought never be defined by their worst day.

Why do we need to know about the human mind? Because things are designed to be used by people, and without a deep understanding of people, the designs are apt to be faulty, difficult to use, difficult to understand.

Engineers and designers simultaneously know too much and too little. They know too much about the technology and too little about how other people live their live and do their activities.

Blaming a person is seldom appropriate or useful, a

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people.

Engineers and designers who believe they do not need to watch the people who use their products are a major source of the many poor designs that confront us.

Cognition and emotion are tightly intertwined, which means that the designers must design with both in mind.

You are designing for people the way you would like them to be, not for the way they really are." When

We believe in letting our light shine, but not shining it in the eyes of other people.

Do I want to be loved in spite of?Do you? Does anyone? But aren't we all to some degree? Aren't there important parts of all of us which must be, so to say, gazed past? I turn a blind eye to that aspect of you and turn a blind eye to that aspect of me.

Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.

The most useful question is not how can I get across what characters are going through? The better question is how can I get readers to go on emotional journeys of their own?