Quotes About Empathy

After all, I looked like them. Maybe this was another human trait. Their ability to turn on themselves, to ostracize their own kind. If that was the case, it added weight to my mission. It made me understand it better.

on earth, I realise, to make someone you care about laugh.

there are millions going through an equivalent experience at any one time.

How to be kinder to yourself about yourself Think of people you have loved. Think of the deepest relationships you have ever had. Think of the joy you felt when seeing those people. Think of how that joy had nothing to do with their looks except that they looked like themselves and you were pleased to see them. Be your own friend. Be pleased to recognize the person behind your face.

we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.

Reading isn't important because it helps to get you a job. It's important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you're given.

So, I thought to myself as I walked away, this is what happens when you live on Earth. You crack. You hold reality in your hands until it burns and then you have to drop the plate.

A world full of people hating themselves is not a happy world.

So this was love. Two life-forms in mutual reliance. I was meant to be thinking I was watching weakness, something to scorn, but I wasn't thinking that at all.

How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?" The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.

Not everything is a war, sweetheart.' 'Of course it is

Self-forgiveness makes the world better. You don't become a good person by believing you are a bad one.

But I have found over the years that by reading about other people who have suffered, survived, and overcome despair, I have felt comforted. It has given me hope.

I wished I had a new wound, just so she could attend to me.

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility. So let's be kind to the people in our own existence.

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility. So let's be kind to the people in our own existence. Let's occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on for ever.

So let's be kind to the people in our own existence. Let's occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on for ever.

It's easy not to judge people for having an illness, its a lot harder not to judge people for how the illness occasionally caused them to behave. Because people can't see the reasons.

Nu pedepsesti pe nimeni in afara de tine daca tii ura inauntrul tau. Ceilalti sunt ceilalti. Tu esti tu.

Compare my life to the lives of other people.

You can always tell if someone is kind because kindness is the sparkle inside their eyes.

Once we take our personal unseen experiences and make them seen, we help others, and even ourselves, to understand what we are going through.

No. Es por todo. Parece imposible vivir sin hacer daño la gente.

Andrew Martin