Quotes About Empathy

We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.

Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.

Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity - this is the ultimate act of human courage.

Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.

We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.

Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.