Quotes About Empathetic

Let us not judge others, because we simply don't know that had we lived their life, we might be exactly the same.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Be the Person that You want to see in Others. Jan Jansen

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

If people would wake that feeling of compassion within themselves, the suffering of others would affect them more often, and the desire to alleviate it, if not prevent it, would grow inside them. Then, the active involvement in the suffering of other beings would become the supreme life principle in everyday reasoning, feeling and the activity of individuals.

Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. (from The Universal Prayer)

The failure to adopt other people's points of view, to take an imaginative leap out of oneself, is one way to account for much of the behavior we find, troublesome, from littering to murder. (Kafka once referred to war as "a monstrous failure of imagination.") Perspective taking helps us at once to see others as fundamentally similar to ourselves despite superficial differences (in that we share a common humanity)

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

I was always very maternal with my friends. I wasn't the kind of little girl that played with dolls and pretended I was the mommy. I wasn't that child, so when I say I was always maternal, I don't mean in that sense - but I've always been a nurturer.

With 'Girls,' I have been able to plug into almost everything I've felt that's personal and sensitive.

I think I'm always trying to see the other's point of view, dealing in a very heart-to-heart way.

I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

If you care about people, then you're willing to act not just with compassion, but you're also willing to act with courage.

I think it would be very scary and very confusing if I didn't understand where people are coming from, but I've felt the exact same way for so many other bands, growing up. It's not really a big deal.

I've always been extremely conservative, but I've never been mean-spirited.

You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet.

A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.