Quotes about Empathetic

Just listen and seek to understand.

Seek first to understand. Before the problems come up, before you try to evaluate and prescribe, before you try to present your own ideas—seek to understand.

Our tendency is to project out of our own autobiographies what we think other people want or need.

Paul didn't just see emotions. He saw the need they represented.

Sometimes all you could do for the suffering was to make sure they knew someone was suffering right there with them. Someone who had also felt stricken, and smitten, and afflicted.

A suffering person does not need a lecture—he needs a listener.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

detach ourselves from making our individual experience the criterion for our approach to others

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Must I keep thinking about those other people, whatever I am doing? And if I want to laugh about something, should I stop myself quickly and feel ashamed that I am cheerful? Ought I then to cry the whole day long? No, that I can't do. Besides, in time this gloom will wear off.

What I think about anyone else I'm thinking about myself.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.