Quotes about Empathy

You need to suspend your reaction when you feel like striking back, to listen when you feel like talking back, to ask questions when you feel like telling your opponent the answers, to bridge your differences when you feel like pushing for your way, and to educate when you feel like escalating. Breakthrough

How many of us can honestly say that we have plumbed the depths of our minds and hearts? How many of us regularly listen to ourselves with empathy and understanding—in the supportive way that a trusted friend can?

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

That best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered actsOf kindness and of love.

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

Look at you comforting others with the words you wish to hear.

Feeling comes in aid Of feeling, and diversity of strength Attends us, if but once we have been strong.

Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.