Quotes About Empathy

I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.

You know, you've never really cared about anyone, he said. But someday you will, and it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt a lot.

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.

Don't over analyze your relationships.

What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.

Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.

Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad.

You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.

The pulse of a strong relationship involves a rhythmic movement between giving and taking, talking and listening, valuing the other person and feeling commensurately valued in return.

You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble.

Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

When you're in a functional friendship or a functional relationship, and you feel like you've got something to share, you can share it with a friend, a lover or whatever.

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

All relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

We all have the same problems in relationships.