Quotes About Empathy

I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.

Did you really love her? Did you really enter her heart and mind? Or did the two of you always remain outside each other?

by some subtle magic of friendship dividing her burden of news and surprises in half. This was what people did for each other when they were in alliance. It was the blessing of connectedness.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.

We're inclined to excuse in ourselves behavior that we find unacceptable in others.

Cultivate love by vanishing hatred.

People who invariably put themselves first will find that others tend to put them last.

Learn to be gracious whether you win or lose.

Listen twice as much as you talk and others will hear twice as much of what you say.

Seek to know others and you will be amazed at how it will help you understand yourself.

it was wartime. People were being bombed out all over the place. Bad experience is more bearable when you are not the only sufferer.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

The shame dies. Just like that, so DH Lawrence wrote. Shame, which is fear. AND judgement.

I really hope no white person ever has causeto write about mebecause they never understandBlack love is Black wealth and they'llprobably talk about my hard childhoodand never understand thatall the while I was quite happy.

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

DONT EVER BE AFRAID TO COME TO ME N CRY ...DONT EVER HESITATE TO LOOK ME N THE EYE DONT EVER BE AFRAID TO TELL ME HOW YOU FEEL. REMEMBAER YOUR MY GIRL N WE GOTTA KEEP IT REAL.

Do friends make better mirrors?