Quotes about Empathy

Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions.

No one can hurt me without my consent.

He continually made deposits into each of our 'emotional bank accounts' with one-on-one dates and modeled that 'in relationships

It is not what others do or even our own mistakes that hurt us the most; it is our response to those things.

We have such a tendency to rush in, to fix things up with good advice. But we often fail to take the time to diagnose, to really, deeply understand the problem first. If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.

When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

It says if you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it.

So the place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our Circle of Influence, our own character.

No one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

True love is found in the affirmation of another person's identity and stewardship, in seeking his or her growth and good, not on interpreting all the other person's responses in terms of one's own needs, hungers, or desires.

When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and inconsiderate, reflecting the little kindnesses and courtesies so important to a deep relationship. They begin to use control leavers to manipulate each other, to focus on their own needs, to justify their own position and look for evidence to show the wrongness of the other person

Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character.