1,354 Quotes About Empathy

I was so afraid of my own need that I couldn’t look need in the eye.

Life is difficult. For some people, excessively so.

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can'tuntil you do understand.

The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd.The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: “anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a true disciple of Christ. Blessed is the person that takes the time to heal and hear another person so they can move on.

There is no small act of kindness.Every compassionate act makes large the world.

I was mad that I was so sensitive in the first place, trained in an empathy so granular and heartbreaking and Jewish, that my view on the family was so robust that I couldn't just be plain angry like a regular teenager. So inclined was I toward empathy and understanding that I didn't even know how I really felt about anything, whatever that even meant. I saw everything from everyone else's perspective and I felt bad and sad for us all.

A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.

When was the last time you told a co-worker of family member or neighbor you loved them? Try it.