Quotes About Empathy

If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead....they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things.

When someone loves you, they don't always have to say it. You can always know it by the way they treat you.

When I fight with you, I'm really fighting for us..because If I didn't care, I wouldn't bother

When you truly care for someone, their mistakes never change our feelings because it's the mind that gets angry but the heart still cares..

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than if hatred had not preceded it.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

The blood inside of me is the blood inside of you. Why must we try and hurt our brothers and sisters when we are all the same? Believe in love.

If you're at the end of your rope...untie the knot in your heart.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

I think it's impossible to really know someone, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Its not so much the journey thats important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.

I speak loudest when I listen the most. My greatest gifts are in what I am willing to appreciatively receive from my students.

Some people make cutting remarks, but the words of the wise bring healing.

You will always have your own problems. But remember, the little ones will not matter as much when you take on someting as meaningful and life changing as one that makes a difference for others.

We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have. What occurs to people when they read Kurt is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.