Quotes about Empathy

Love will always be blind, but will never be deaf.

You only need four words to spell the greatest word in the universe: L.O.V.E.

How to change the world:• spread positivity• bring people up instead of dragging them down• treat others the way you wish to be treated

Be the spouse you wish to have.

An open heart has greater power than a clenched fist.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

Human beings are curious, and especially curious about other human beings.

Do not say you agree, disagree, or suspend judgement until you can say "I understand

We must act in such a way, when reading a story, that we let it act on us. We must allow it to move us, we must let it do whatever work it wants to do on us. We must somehow make ourselves open to it.

Let the characters into your mind and heart; suspend your disbelief, if such it is, about the events. Do not disapprove of something a character does before you understand why he does it—if then. Try as hard as you can to live in his world, not in yours; there, the things he does may be quite understandable. And do not judge the world as a whole until you are sure that you have "lived" in it to the extent of your ability.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

When we as God's children realize that His grace is sufficient for every situation, at that point we are no longer victims. We are free to rise above and move on beyond whatever may have been done to us, to release those who have wronged us, and to become instruments of grace, reconciliation, and redemption in the lives of other hurting people—even in the lives of our offenders.