Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.
...empathy is the most important power there is. Without it, we are doomed. With it, we can truly change the world.(interview from USC)
Everyone carries a burden. Only the weight differs.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else.
We live by encouragement and die without it -- slowly, sadly, and angrily.
Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our wo...
Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better.Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him w...
I think that we have to create in ourselves, through critical analysis of our practice, some qualities, some virtues as educators. One of them, for example, is the quality of becoming more and more op...
Critics are only concerned with what affects them. And feeling empathy is a gift not many possess.
It's horrible if someone delights in someone's failures. It's horrible if someone feels bad when someone does good.
Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).
Patience and empathy are anger's mortal enemies.
An empath is capable of taking on the grief of another in order to lessen their suffering. In order to not be consumed with pain, an empath should have an outlet for that pain lest they lose themselve...
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity...
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