Quotes About Empathy

2. If attitude is so important, why bother about words? A parent's look of disgust or tone of contempt can hurt deeply. But if, in addition, a child is subjected to words like "stupid" . . . "careless" . . . "irresponsible" . . . "you'll never learn," he's doubly wounded. Somehow words have a way of lingering long and poisonously. The worst part is that children sometimes pull out

I want my kids to know that they're entitled to be miserable without their mother falling apart.

The more you try to push a child's unhappy feelings away, the more he becomes stuck in them.

But let someone really listen, let someone acknowledge my inner pain and give me a chance to talk more about what's troubling me, and I begin to feel less upset, less confused, more able to cope with my feelings and my problem.

We are convinced that when our classrooms really work, they work because relationships are working. And relationships work when communication is humane and caring.

It's hard for a child to think clearly or constructively when someone is questioning, blaming, or advising her.

4. YOU CAN GIVE THE CHILD HIS WISHES IN FANTASY. "I wish I could make the banana ripe for you right now!

When we urge a child to push a bad feeling away— however kindly—the child seems to get only more upset.

If someone really listens, acknowledges my emotional pain, and gives me the opportunity to talk more about it, I then "begin to feel less upset.

Steady denial of feelings can confuse and enrage kis. Also teaches them not to know what their feelings are--not to trust them.

You could tell a horse everything, and it wouldn't judge you or condemn you or think you stupid. A horse had no opinion at all about the way you looked.

But he's got your way of making me lean into peace whenever I see red.

Mr Elliott nodded sympathetically, leaned across the table and patted his client's hand. Gillian raised an eyebrow and wondered whether the man had slept through the #MeToo revolution.

Maybe, it was incredulity that two people could go through something together but still see it so differently.

We speak with hideous honesty. A pair of women who have been the very best to one another and now the worst.

It's not the friends who ride up with you in the limousine, it's the one who comes home with you on the bus.

For by the word upstart I mean everyone who has raised himself through his own efforts to a social level higher than that to which he formerly belonged. In the case of such a person the hard struggle through which he passes often destroys his normal human sympathy. His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.

His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.

In order not to despair completely of the people with whom I lived, I had to separate the outward appearances of their lives from the reasons why they developed that way. Then I could bear everything without discouragement.

Each only hears the sound to which his innermost is attuned. Speech of September 3, 1933 in Nuremberg

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

When you point a finger at someone, always remember that three fingers are pointing back at you.