Quotes About Empathetic

My mother often says that it is the mark of a truly good person if she is happy for those she has never met.

The old men used to say that we should each of us look upon our neighbor's experiences as if they were our own. We should suffer with our neighbor in everything and weep with him, and should behave as if we were inside his body; and if any trouble befalls him, we should feel as much distress as we would for ourselves"21 (The Sayings of the Desert Fathers). All this is true, precisely because man is made in the image of God the Trinity.

Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

We have to listen to understand in the same way we want to be understood.

What if we were willing to acknowledge our own hurt and pain, and in doing so made sure not to diminish the hurt and pain of others?

Stephen Covey's sage advice still stands: "Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Whenever possible, you gotta try to see the goings-on of life through more eyes than just your own, because that can help you see things more clearly.

detach ourselves from making our individual experience the criterion for our approach to others

But if you would laugh when others laugh and weep when they weep then you must be prepared to die as they die and live as they live

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

When you're there for others, you're ahead of everyone.

By creating problems for others you will never able solve your own problem. When you will try to solve your enemy's problem, your problem will disappear.

Listen with an open heart

If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.

He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

I'm so emotional when it comes to even the smallest thing.

I've got a friendly smile, a greeting smile, and a you-know-exactly-what-I'm-thinking smile.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

Think of another as you want God to think of you.

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear.