Empathy proverbs

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◆ The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross99

◆ All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

- Tahereh Mafi99

◆ When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

- Ernest Hemingway99

◆ 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.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald99

◆ for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

- Milan Kundera99

◆ To perceive is to suffer.

- Aristotle99

◆ Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

- Leo Buscaglia99

◆ I learn from my own daughter that you don't have to be awake to cry.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.

- Gautama Buddha99

◆ We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer99

◆ 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 world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.

- Daniel Goleman99

◆ It's like when you're excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you're happy, too.

- Stephen Chbosky99

◆ Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

- Erol Ozan99

◆ I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry99

◆ No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

- Theodore Roosevelt99