Empathy quotes

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◆ I wish I could give you my pain for a moment, not to hurt you, but to make you understand how much it hurts to be left alone by you.

- 100

◆ When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

- Henri J.M. Nouwen100

◆ Before you judge someones feelings, think about how you would feel if you were in their position...then maybe you can see why they feel the way they do.

- 99

◆ Words alone don't make a relationship of any kind, put actions of trust, honesty, kindness, empathy, and strength behind them and it will last a longtime.

- 99

◆ Intelligence is an elegance of excellence with an endurance of empathy, efficiency and effervescence of self-reliance with self-confidence besides an effective respect for independence and ignorance.

- Anuj Somany99

◆ Never assume you know someone completely unless you have traveled the journey of their heart. Smiles, tears, love, and fears are not always seen in the actions or eyes of the one you look at through your own eyes.

- Tammi Post99

◆ Trust the one who could see three things in you: sorrow behind your smile, love behind your anger and meaning behind your silence.

- 99

◆ True friends share your deepest hurts.

- 99

◆ I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

- Ritu Ghatourey99

◆ Always try to be more sensitive about people's feelings. Because there are times that a tear means happiness and a smile means hurt.

- Rani Waghule99

◆ Don't just ignore the effort of a person who tries to keep in touch. People get tired. It's not all times that they hold on.

- 99

◆ Its not so much the journey thats important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way.

- Jeremy Aldana99

◆ If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

- Atticus Finch99

◆ We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principal goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

- Barack Obama99

◆ When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.

- Brandi Snyder99