Quotes About Empathy

costs nothing, but works wonders for oiling the cogs of social exchange.

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Many of us would like to see an end to discrimination of all kinds, happier families, and a safer, more harmonious future for our children. But how can we as individuals make a difference? We can begin by learning to listen in a mindful way. Listening is the first step in making people feel valued. Mindful listening allows us to do more than take in peoples words; it helps us better understand the how and why of their views.

A good listener is not only one who processes the spoken word and the meaning behind the words accurately, but one who makes the speaker feel valued by encouraging him to expand on his ideas and feelings. A good listener touches the lives of those to whom he listens.

Listening intently even for a minute is one of the nicest gifts we can give to another human being.

Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them.

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

Never embrace a version of the gospel that doesn't require you to do life with someone who isn't like you.

Everybody needs someone who knows their name, and what's happening in their life So,

Tension is actually the platform that gives you an opportunity to demonstrate that this is a safe place.

You know, I hope you don't judge

Everyone has a story to tell. You just have to listen.

Offer her a hand when she slips, applause when she soars.

Adelaide nodded. "I don't suspect you need my intervention any longer.

A reproach given with great kindness is often well received, whereas when given with sharpness it produces no results. Thus Christ tells us: "Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart.

Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. That's not a very good head start. He's had a pretty terrible sixteen years. I think maybe we owe him a few words. That's all.

Gemeinsames Gehen ist für mich die selbstverständlichste Form des Zusammenseins. Wie das gemeinsame Klettern auch. Alles geht viel besser, wenn ich in einer Seilschaft unterwegs bin. Am besten zu zweit. Die unendlich vielen Möglichkeiten, in die wir dabei hineingeraten, lassen sich zu zweit besser ausschöpfen, bewältigen und ertragen. Was auch immer dabei passiert, in einer Seilschaft können Sorgen und Ängste geteilt werden.

The intelligent man, who exploits available resources for knowledge of the needs and wants of his fellows, will be more inclined to adjust his conduct to their needs than those who are less intelligent.

Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].

comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable