Quotes About Empathy

Before you complain about what I don't do for you, ask yourself if you're doing it for me.

The relationship you have with yourself (consciously or unconsciously) sets the tone for every other relationship in your life.

It is easy to see the faults in others, only the broad-minded see it in themselves.

Be kind to yourself. No need to beat yourself up for the mistakes you've made. They're a blessing. They've made you what you are today.

Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody elses eyes.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception.

How you see yourself is a mirror into how you view other people, and that predicts your outcome of your luck with your insight into strangers.

Start with you. Be what you expect from a relationship or friendship.

Remind yourself that it's ok not to be perfect.

Let people do what they need to do to make them happy, mind your business, and do what you need to do to make you happy.

Stop trying to see what's going on inside someone else's window, and set your own household in order.

Kindness is the essence of truth, when we are kind toward others it reflects our true self.

Making fun of fat people wont make you any thinner, and making fun of ugly people wont make you any prettier, and making fun of unsuccessful people wont necessarily make you successful, so leave the creatures to the One who created them, Instead if making fun of people work on improving YOURSELF.

Far too many people are looking for the right person; instead of trying to be the right person.

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Life is not a contest of who is better than who. When you drop the ego, you will see that we are all on the same side.

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

Dont be so hard on yourself for not having it together all the time, for not knowing all the answers. You dont always have to be sure of who you are, otherwise there would be nothing left to discover.

Be careful - the darkness you see in another's heart might just be a reflection of that which is in your own heart.

The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.