Quotes About Empathy

Never underestimate your ability to affect the trajectory of another human life, especially at their lowest moment.

There is a proverb that says, 'Talk so that I may know who you are.' But I say, 'Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.

I had believed that my homeland was the whole world, just as when I was a child I believed that our street was the whole homeland. As I grew up so the street grew smaller. But when my being reached out beyond the homeland, the earth shrank and new feelings, that I was larger than before, filled me.

Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian. I didn't think it was going to go this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives.

You never know whether this is a form of instinctive blackmail, and therefore, to be resisted, or whether it is real illness brought on in the other person by what you live by and believe in.

A dirty player Is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

The true Christian is a communicator.

When we feel so alone, we cannot presume to teach him who, at the apogee of his agony, trod "the winepress alone" anything about feeling forsaken.

We could not learn love in the abstract any more than we could learn patience and the other cardinal virtues. Just as we cannot know the "fellowship of his sufferings" without suffering, we also come to know real fellowship with our fellowmen only by serving them.

When we "pass by" others and "notice them not," a degree of deprivation occurs. (Mormon 8:39.)

One of the ways, therefore, we will be "proved herewith" is our determination as to whether or not we love others enough to give and to receive such vital communications. We may quickly say that communicating thusly with those close to us is difficult; indeed, it is, but with whom else is it really possible? Are not the people proximate to us our tiny portion of humanity, given to us by God as our social stewardship?

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

Most omissions occur because we fail to get outside ourselves. We are so busy checking on our own temperatures that we do not notice the burning fevers of others even when we could offer them some of the needed remedies, such as encouragement, kindness, and commendation. The hands that hang down and most need to be lifted up belong to those too discouraged even to reach out anymore.

Sometimes, when you fight a war, you become what you are fighting.

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

The most powerful bond we know of is the bond between mother and child, and we break it in order to make "comfort foods" for ourselves" Michael Schwarz

Sobre la autocompasión del hermano mayor de la parábola del hijo pródigo: queremos la compasión y la simpatía de las personas más de lo que deseamos ser libres, más de lo que queremos avanzar y dejar atrás nuestras dificultades. Si dejamos de lado nuestra autocompasión, tenemos que enfrentar que somos responsables de nuestras propias vidas.

Compassion compels us to go further in love.

Si le das tus "panes y peces" a Jesús, Él puede y convertirá nuestros humildes dones, incluso las cicatrices de nuestras dolorosas heridas, en una mayor compasión por los demás.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.