Quotes About Empathy

I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.

often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else's loss.

Someone who is self assured celebrates the accomplishments of others.

Maggie Dove wanted to be a beacon of light. She dreamed of being the sort of person who made others laugh, calmed crying babies, soothed wild dogs, inspired hopefulness.

Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who's hurting. Only judge when time passes ad the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.

One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

No matter how long it takes to heal...we share the same scars...

If you want to heal Heal othersAnd smile or weepAt this happy reversal of fate

Vulnerability is what heals us.

There are so many people in the world with so little. Who cares why you decide to help?

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Sometimes you just have to hold each other's hands and walk through it all.

There's nothing like the gift of understanding.

Listen to yourself and you are heard.

One is far better off feeling than one is thinking.

Sometimes you're the protagonist and someone else is the hero.

Three words for a writer: Make me care.

Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.

Grace is goodness.

You are my heart now. Whatever happens to you happens to me.

Consciousness blooms with the expansion of the heart.

Listening with the focus of actually understanding what the other person is trying to communicate is priceless, a talent that everyone possesses but not something that is practiced enough.

By making sad ones happy, we find our happiness!

Doing something nice for myself is not selfish.