Quotes about Empathy

Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.

From the secular to the sacred, we can focus on ourselves or others.

If Christians believe that God is in every person, why don't we act like that?

Never underestimate the power of one well-timed compliment. It has the power to change a person's entire perspective on life.

Before entertaining guests, Roosevelt would read up on whatever subject matter they might be interested in. This enabled him to become quite the conversationalist. And I would suggest that it was one way in which Roosevelt loved his neighbor as himself—he showed genuine interest in their interests.

Never leave the impression that you're the hero or the smartest

While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.

Do you think you are going to live forever? Is life so long you rather rag somebody than be nice to them?

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.