Quotes About Empathy

I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

My true relationship is with myself - all others are simply mirrors of it.

Kind words are the music of the world.

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.

Ideal relationship is based on giving.

Studies of reconciliation in primates have demonstrated that if the relationship value increases between two parties they are more willing to make peace.

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.

It's not a guy and a girl, or a girl and a girl or a guy and a guy - it's a relationship.

We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place.

Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.

So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.