Quotes About Empathy

In the meantime, it's unfair of me to use my expectations as the standard for their behavior or hold it against them when they don't live up to my hopes.

I don't remember a single classroom lesson she taught, but I very clearly remember the way she made me feel.

Let your gentleness be evident to all" (Philippians 4:5).

Forgiveness isn't an act of my determination. Forgiveness is only made possible by my cooperation.

Let your past rejection experiences work for you instead of against you by allowing them to help you sense the possible pain behind other people's reactions.

Most people are walking around with way more hurts from their past than we can ever imagine. Pretty much everyone has at some point been deeply hurt by someone. That's your "me too.

placing unrealistic expectations on others. After all, people will not respect us more than we respect ourselves.

And in that you will find the why. Why did this happen? Because there's someone else in the world who would drown in their own tears for not seeing yours.

Choosing a gentle reply doesn't mean you're weak; it actually means you possess a rare and godly strength.

all the many times I assign thoughts to others that they never actually think. I hold them accountable to harsh judgments they never make. And I own a rejection from them they never gave me.

With the fullness of God, we are free to let humans be humans—fickle and fragile and forgetful.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret." In other words, taste a little bit of the shame of letting it all rip before you find yourself drowning in gallons of unwanted regret.

And in that you will finally find the why. Why did this happen? Because there's someone else in the world who would drown in their own tears if not for seeing yours. And when you make one other human simply see they aren't alone, you make the world a better place.

I realized that neither Paul nor Barnabas were bad people. They were good people. But they weren't good together. And that's okay. It's so much healthier to be brave enough to go your separate ways than to keep stuffing and drown in a sea of bitterness.

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Judgment is not always required. You don't need to have an opinion on every issue.

Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.

From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soullessness of men.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Ultimately love is everything.