Quotes About Empathy

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.

Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.

Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.

Make your relationships more important than your accomplishments .

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

See the good in people and help them.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.

Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.