Quotes About Empathy

Listen to your own heart and the hearts of the women you know. What is it that a woman wants? What does she dream of?

El corazón de una madre es algo inmenso y glorioso. El corazón de mi madre era amplio, fue dilatado por el sufrimiento y años de aferrarse a Jesús mientras era malentendida, ignorada y juzgada por aquellos a quienes más amaba. Incluyéndome a mí. Le costó mucho amar, le costó mucho ser madre. Siempre es así. Pero te diría que bien valió la pena; que no hay otra forma.

Women who are stunningly beautiful are women who have had their hearts enlarged by suffering.

You are never a great man when you have more mind than heart. —BEAUCHENE

What do you want me to pray for them? Show me what to pray.

You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.

We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are. (HEBREWS 4:15)

many relationships fail for the insistence of treating others as problems to be solved, rather than as hearts to be known and loved.

Do not diminish the wounds you have received because you have heard far worse stories than yours; minimizing the impact of a wound never heals it. Jesus cares about it all.

Make no room for offense.

I don't trust a man who hasn't suffered; I don't let a man get close to me who hasn't faced his wound.

You see, whenever we live in relationship, whenever we simply live in proximity to other people, sooner or later we will run up against their issues—the unhealed or unholy parts of their personalities. Just as they will run into ours. Living in community is like a pack of porcupines sharing the same den. We will get stuck.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. JFK

No tienes que poseer un título universitario para servir. No tienes que hacer que tu sujeto y tu verbo coincidan para servir. No tienes que saber sobre Platón y Aristóteles para servir. No tienes que conocer la teoría de la relatividad de Einstein para servir. Solo necesitas un corazón lleno de gracia. Un alma que nazca del amor. Y puedes ser ese servidor.

A country cannot afford to ignore its poor and disadvantaged. Common humanity means that we should not.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

You're not me. You can't feel like I feel. I can feel. No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine. It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

Nu poti sa urasti pe cineva deja infrant.Care, fara tine, nu va mai fi niciodata om intreg.

She was a mirror that did not lie; whose interest in me was real; whose love was real.

As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.