Quotes About Empathetic

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another person, what you do to another person – you do to you. Give judgment and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself.

Focus on their feelings, not the facts. Begin with sympathy, not solutions.

Sometimes...you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.

Poor creatures. I wish I could help you. But now you're by yourself.

Before you judge someone, imagine what the world looks like through their eyes.

Of all the definitions of "human" provided over the ages—from the "political animal" to the "symbolic animal"—probably the most accurate is the "role-taking animal," the capacity to see not only what one is oneself seeing but to put oneself in the shoes of an other and see the world as that other is seeing it.

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

to sense the client's inner world of private personal meanings as if it were your own, but without ever losing the 'as if' quality

All the happiness in the world comes from thinking of others; all the suffering in the world comes from thinking of only oneself." By concerning yourself with the problems of others, your own problems become diminished, both in perspective, because you realize that perhaps other people have more serious obstacles than yours, and in reality, because when you stop focusing on your own difficulties they lose their mastery over you.

The main shift, you see, is from placing self at the center of our thoughts to putting others there. It is-what do you say?-a paradox that the more we can focus our thoughts on the well-being of others, the happier we become. The first one to benefit is oneself. I call this being wisely selfish.

If there is one thing I have learnt in my years of Good Works, it is that thinking of others can be a blessed respite from thinking of oneself.

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

We never know the journey another person has walked, so be kind to everyone.

A cat is a peerless poultice.

Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor.

It reminds me of this wonderful adage from the British columnist Katharine Whitehorn: "You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.

I'm not crying because you're mean. I just can't imagine how incredibly painful it must be to be you.

Don't hurt someone who cares about you like that. You're not the only person in the world who's ever been hurt. Don't be cruel. Don't go breaking someone else's heart in the hope that you'll feel better. Becaues you won't.