Quotes about Empathy

She's not mean. She's just hurt. An animal that's gentle and friendly growls when it's injured. Remember that when people act ugly toward you. They're usually in some kind of pain.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

No one should be harassed or mistreated because of who they are, who they love, or what they believe.

Talk like an ambassador (Eph 4:29-30). 1)Consider the person (only what is helpful for building others up) 2) Consider the problem (according to their needs) 3) Consider the process (that it may benefit those who listen)

What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

It was lovely. Not to be stared at, not seen, but being pulled into view by the interested, uncritical eyes of the other.

I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

Difficult to "move on" from any site of suffering if that suffering goes unacknowledged and undescribed.