Quotes About Empathy

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.

You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.