Quotes About Empathy

SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too? PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante is always to do whatever her mistress does- weep when she weeps, smile when she smiles, go mad when she goes mad.-Now, Madam Confidante! But keep your madness in the background, if you please.

Be good to the child and he will come to you tomorrow. - Unknown

Model the gratitude you want your children to show.

Allowing children open access to every aspect of parents' lives can make for children who simply cannot bear the idea of their parents having experiences, relationships, and more that exclude them.

Hardly last and supremely paramount, you deserve forgiveness, your own and the children's, for your inevitable moments of moodiness and impatience, for your mistakes and missteps, and for all that is part of the human condition that makes children and their behaviors forgivable.

Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.

When we criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

If, however, you take a moment to observe how you actually feel immediately after you criticise someone, you'll notice that you will feel a little deflated and ashamed, almost like you're the one who has been attacked. The reason this is true is that when we criticise, it's a statement to the world and to ourselves, "I have a need to be critical." This isn't something we are usually proud to admit.

Choose being kind over being right and you'll be right every time.

Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.

I'm merely talking about learning to be less bothered by the actions of people.

Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it's impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else.

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

Giving someone or something our entire attention, with no preconceived ideas or agendas whatever, is the essence of love.

The resentful man is a human with the capacity for affection so poorly developed that his understanding for the motives of others very nearly does not exist.

How can I continue to live, he shouted at high scream under the nave of his encompassing skull, if people are going to continue to carry bundles of pain on top of their heads like Haitian laundresses, then fling the bundles at random into the face of any bright stroller who happened to be passing by?

Cultural and religious differences may make it impossible for some people to laugh at the same thing.

Dogs are my favorite people.

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.