Quotes About Empathy

More often than not, it was the hand of the needy and uncertain that extended the olive branch. History had shown the truth of that over and over again.

Empathy is the engine that drives design.

When we make the world a better place, the world makes us better people.

If you can't forgive someone you're close to for making a mistake, then why do apologies even exist?

It is tempting to think that in order to change our experience of our world we need to force others to change. Such thinking is an abdication of our power to change ourselves.

Kimse mükemmel de?ildir. Ba?kalar?n? affetti?inde asl?nda kendini affedersin.

Come sit down beside me, I said to myself, And although it doesn't make sense, I held my own hand As a small sign of trust And together I sat on the fence.

There are only two feelings. Love and fear. There are only two languages. Love and fear. There are only two activities. Love and fear.

You've been talking about me in therapy?""In therapy, in my sleep, in AA, in chat rooms, to strangers," I said. "Women like you are the reason therapy was invented.

THIS will show her true colors! Thus, not even a call. But that's par for the course with Dina! She didn't even send a card or visit when he was sick."OK! Magazine: Lindsay's Grandfather Dies (August 28, 2008)1

What those who were contemptuous of sports misunderstood was not merely that a middle-class sports fan might revere football to the same degree that an inveterate theatergoer revered Shakespeare, but that he might do so for many of the same reasons.

Because the evangelical left—like most human beings—is highly lacking in empathy and unable to perceive other points of view, its members tend to equate their perspective with universally perceived truth.

The only advice I have ever wanted to give is this: 'If it is in your nature to do so be a little vulnerable. Don't be afraid to talk about yourself, your journey, your pain, your vision.

The wound in one person can become the door through which everyone can find the center of life again.

If a man does not know the wounds of his own soul, he can deny not just his own pain, but also be unmoved by the suffering of other people. More than that, he will tend to put his wound onto others. He may only be able to see the wound that secretly troubles him when he forcefully projects it into someone else, in forms of abuse or violence.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but has not solved one yet." ? Maya Angelou Quote

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability?

there is a world of difference between calling something evil and calling someone evil. The first strategy mobilizes resources against the problem; the second only recycles the ultimate cause of the problem, which is ill will, resentment, lack of empathy, and eventually hatred.

We had not liked each other much at first. He mistook my shyness for arrogance and I failed to see that his arrogance masked his shyness.

People are basically screwed-up and often the best you can do for them is listen, hear the worst and then tell it's not so bad.

What is true forgiveness? M: It is understanding that each creation has their own method of learning and producing, and they're entitled to mistakes, as I am. The growth process isn't perfect, and you must understand that so you don't always remember people for the hurt you imagined from them in the past.

The specific way that you spend on other people isn't nearly as important as the fact that you spend on other people.