Quotes About Empathy

Without words like blame, victim, and fault, I do believe about 50% of the unhappiness in the world would be cured.

Seek not to fix or change others, especially when they've hurt you. Neither should you find excuses for their behavior or "learn to love them"—however good a sound bite the latter makes. What will serve you most is to create as much space as possible within which to heal, be distracted, and fill your life with new friends, ideas, and adventures.

Mother Teresa said, "The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

People of the Second Chance understand that God's love gets in through our cracks and breaks.

It's the best feeling in the world knowing there's someone in your corner. That no matter what and no matter how badly you mess up, they will always be on your side.

You carry about in your own selfish world completely oblivious to the things that really upset me and then wonder what it is you've done wrong.

People always go on about how fantastic relationships are in the beginning, and of course everyone hates relationships when they end, but what about the middles? the middles where you know everything there is to know. Where you can look at the person you love and know what they're thinking, see something on the telly and know how they'd react;When you know exactly what they'd wear to come round and see you.

Joyce, you know you can't pick a fight with everyone who has something to say about us, don't you?' 'I know,' she whispered into the darkness. 'There's too many of them, and not enough hours in the day.' 'It's funny,' said Hubert. 'Until me came to this country me went my whole life thinking me was just plain old Hubert Bird and then me come and find that actually me the devil himself.

She had this uncanny sense of seeing things the way they were instead of the way you'd want them to be, of knowing me better than I knew myself. She could sniff out the truth even if it hurt.

I keep quiet and she keeps quiet too, until we use up all the quiet in the room so that finally one of us has to say something.

To her to know truly, was to be intimate. To be intimate was to know the person you love as well as you know your own self.

You see, the key to helping other people out of them loneliness is nothing more difficult than good old-fashioned perseverance. It's not always easy, me know that, but you've got to be willing to keep doors open, to carry on trying even if it doesn't look like it's working. You've got to refuse to give up on people, even if them giving up on themselves.

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.

Never go into user research to prove a point, and never create goals that seek to justify a position or reinforce a perspective. The process should aim to uncover what people really want and how they really are, not whether an opinion (whether yours or a stakeholder's) is correct

I'm sorry to hear that," DeMarco said, although he wasn't sorry. As far as he was concerned Tony deserved to die alone.

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

some things are so awful, you can't look them square in the face and some things make no sense no matter what angle you look at them from. and of course they happen in other people's lives, never in your own.

So yes I will gladly take on your ocean just to swim beneath you so I can kiss the bends of your knees in appreciation for the work they do keeping your head above water — Mike McGee, from "Everyday," FORTH Magazine : Poetry. Apr 16, 2010

Hellboy, to be other than human does not necessarily mean to be less. Remember that, remember me.

There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

Treat others as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming." Goethe "No one needs love more than the person we find difficult to like." Mike Moore

Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you've been assigned.

Whatever you have been given is what someone needs.....