...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can'tuntil you do understand.
What is love?It's not empathy, nor kindness.Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the one who empathizes.Kindness takes two, the one who gives and the one who takes.But love takes just one.The two...
Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).
God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain.
There is no great reward for being emotionally withdrawn, no pity prize for bottling your frustration. No one is coming to congratulate your chronic self-repression. By opening up, maybe you will inco...
A thousand pounds for clothes--when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter!
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.
The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias...
Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.
By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?
Patience and empathy are anger's mortal enemies.
The emotional states are liberated inside water, we calm down emotionally, we become more sensitive, we are able to "touch" deeper ourselves and other beings. Empathy is echoing back to us giving subt...
Empathy is the stepping stone to respect
We live by encouragement and die without it -- slowly, sadly, and angrily.
Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.
I feel therefore I am.
I am because I feel.
The Awakening Land" p614 But what in God's name did folks today want to make the whole world over like they were for? In her time in the woods, everybody she knew was egged on to be his own special se...
We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.
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