Quotes About Empathy

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

First with the head, then with the heart.

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.

If I was a part of secret ninja group my power would be the power of apology. I would just apologize emphatically and freely. And my mech might just be a phone to send apologetic emails from.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for growth.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.

Words have no power when someone isn't listening to you anymore

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

Sometimes when we see or hear of a need, there is nothing we can do to help. Sometimes the only thing we can do is pray. But never underestimate the power of the prayers of the righteous.

You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn't know I had that power.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.