Quotes About Empathy

giving is one of our greatest joys.

Imagine what our world would be life if everyone loved themselves so much that they weren't threatened by other people's opinions or skin colours or sexual preferences or talents or education or possessions or lack of possessions or religious beliefs or customs or their general tendency to just be whoever the hell they are.

One of the premier causes of unnecessary drama is bad boundaries.

The difference between seeing someone fall apart laughing and seeing them fall apart laughing at something you said. The first usually makes you feel as good and laugh as hard as they do, which raises your frequency. The second situation, you're not just meeting them at a high frequency, you're exchanging energy at a high frequency.

We need people to feel happy and fulfilled and loved so they don't take their shit out on themselves

Tough love is still love. 4.

Forgiveness is all about taking care of you, not the person you need to forgive. It's about putting your desire to feel good before your desire to be right.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.     ââ'¬â€RalphWaldo Emerson; American poet, essayist, visionary, giver

You cannot give what you do not have, so if you want to help others you have to take care of yourself first.

Our world, now more than ever, needs as many compassionate, creative, bighearted, conscious people to be as rich as possible

Drama dies without an audience

When we identify with music that we are perceiving - or perhaps better, with the person whom we imagine owns the emotions or emotional gestures we hear in the music - we share in and adopt these emotions as our own [...]. And so we end up feeling as, in imagination, the music does.

You're not so different from Kiernan anyway. You both have lived long enough to lose friends—too long, maybe. Perhaps that's why the Minstrel wears a mask and keeps people at arm's length: he too knows the pain of loving too much.

Dojhur listened carefully, not interrupting, until the story had finished. "You're lucky," he said at last. "At least you knew your parents." Olifur frowned. "Didn't you?" Dojhur shook his head, his expression melancholy. "Both died before I was born, I think." Olifur nodded, then paused, tilting his head to one side as he pondered how such a thing might be possible.

It's like being in a sort of club, isn't it? A bereavement club. You don't choose to join it; it's thrust upon you. And the members whose lives have been changed have more knowledge than those who aren't in it, but the price of belonging is so terribly high.

So you see, he says softly, we are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

No," he said, "I have no sensation there." That was true, and it was the blessing of scars: the deeper they were, the more you couldn't feel anything in them at all.

Sometimes, it seems, when you let people know what you're going through, help arrives when you're least expecting it, bringing you what you didn't know you needed, in forms above and beyond what you've ever imagined.

How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

A bereavement club. You don't choose to join it; it's thrust upon you. And the members whose lives have been changed have more knowledge than those who aren't in it, but the price of belonging is so terribly high.

How wise she was, knowing when to let go, and having the strength and generosity to put the needs of the people she loved above her own.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

By the way, honey, you look wonderful. You've lost so much weight! What diet are you on?" I stop in the doorway, breathe in through my nose, out through my mouth. "I'm caring for a dying man, Mother. A dying man you haven't asked me about once since I stepped foot in here, or even called to say hello. Somehow, I've lost my appetite.