Emily Berrington Quotes

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

To be truly empathetic, we have to acknowledge that we're all human, we're all flawed, and that life can be difficult.

Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.

To truly feel seen by another person makes you feel so peaceful.

I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.

This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.

Empathy is about two people - two people meeting, getting to know each other and tuning in to what the other person is thinking and feeling.

I can see that everybody has their own challenges that they are dealing with. But what's so beautiful about music is that it brings people together, levels the playing field and opens people up.

I always want people to experience the feelings I am experiencing. Anything I can do to get you to feel, that's an honor and a duty that I take very seriously.