Quotes About Empathy

For voice to be meaningful, there must be those willing to listen.

Help her, since she is unhappy, And a woman; two good motives

se emborrachan a la par, como si compartieran el torrente sanguíneo.

Como suele pasar, Verónica despreciaba a la gente que se le parecía.

Si lo pienso, creo que todo esto empezó no tanto porque no te soportara más a vos, sino porque no soportaba más a la persona que yo era con vos.

Y yo sentí lo de otras veces: que entrar a un pueblo en medio de la oscuridad era como estrecharle la mano a una persona sin poder verle la cara.

How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass Everyone does this occasionally, and you shouldn't feel too upset about it unless it happens quite often, such as three times a day, in which case you must simply get used to it. Remember, other people like you as well or better for it, because it makes them feel so superior; so you've spread a little sunshine. And at the very least, you've served as a bad example.

Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.

As Louis Cozolino Ph. D., observes, a consistent theme of adult psychotherapy clients is that they had parents who were not curious about who they were but, instead, told them who they should be. What Cozolino explains, is that the child creates a "persona" for her parents but doesn't learn to know herself. What happens is that "the authentic self"--the part of us open to feelings, experinces, and intimicy--remains underdeveloped.

75 percent of long-term job success depends on people skills, while only 25 percent on technical knowledge.

They cover a wide spectrum of abilities and traits: being self-aware, trustworthiness, conscientiousness, adaptability, critical thinking, attitude, initiative, empathy, confidence, integrity, self-control, organizational awareness, likability, influence, risk taking, problem solving, leadership, time management, and then some.

People don't care how much you know unless they know how much you care.

write for listeners as opposed to readers.

As we have become more open minded (tolerant) in society we have become more closed hearted.

Where others teach that man does not find himself until he finds God, John Paul gives an empathetic yes and then adds this: Man does not become his truest and most real self unless and John Paul believed that man is by nature part of a whole, that he does not exist alone. He lives in society with other men, who are, like him, God's children. And it is in giving to man, in giving until it hurts, that man in the deepest way finds God. For God himself is a constant giving. (p 126-127)

Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

When adults read a book, they're two feet away; when children read it, they're right inside it.

People need to continue talking until they get enough understanding to be able to genuinely leave it behind.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart...

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.