Quotes About Empathy

There's some that constantly put monkeys on your back. It' their monkey, but somehow you end up carrying it. Often there are people who really care, but they constantly have problems and they want to share it with you and you're constantly trying to fix things for them. In truth, you're worried more about their problems than you do your own. Be weary of the monkeys.

There's some that constantly put monkeys on your back. It's their monkey, but somehow you end up carrying it. Often there are people who really care, but they constantly have problems and they want to share it with you and you're constantly trying to fix things for them. In truth, you're worried more about their problems than you do your own. Be weary of the monkeys.

For this is a great sin, to not share with those who have thirst.

His empathy ties him to the root of others' emotions. It was part of what he chose to have.

He chose to feel. It is removed from his conscious process. He has no choice but to feel those things.

the evolution of the heart and compassion is what is missing technically. Humans have proceeded to technological advances before without heart balance, without heart evolution. And it has been disastrous. So we are here to evolve heart first until the heart is aligned with this knowledge.

Goodness seeks nothing except to give itself and to communicate the riches which it enjoys.

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.

Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase.

I think you get so involved in the lives of the people you write about so you can avoid dealing with your own," she said.

What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Of all things, only the heart is measure. And those who have hearts are always the hope of mankind.

The more he loved and was loved, the better his life got. At once it seemed to Jack like a magical solution to everything. If only everyone loved everyone else! Then there would be no trouble in the world. It seemed so easy. If we all just reached our hands out to each other, what peaks of human joy could we not achieve!

At such times as that, when the TV cameras begin creeping up on a mother weeping at her son's coffin, journalists should wonder where the profession is heading.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

four key principles: (1) taking the initiative to reach out to others; (2) showing genuine interest in people; (3) treating others with respect and kindness; and (4) valuing others and yourself as unique individuals who have much to share and offer one another.

good friends improve the quality of my life.

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

Conversation is not dialogue, it's monologues. No one ever really listens in conversations. It's civility that makes you wait and pretend you give a fuck what the other person is saying.

The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don't take anything personally. 3. Don't make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.

Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.

Yet many times I felt terribly alone and was convinced that no one else understood. And I still think that's true. When our pain becomes intense and endures for weeks without relief, no one else really knows. I'm not sure it's worthwhile for them to know what it's like. They care. That's what I think is important.

I had seen my refusal as not wanting to impose; they saw my change as giving them an opportunity to help.