Pema Chodron Quotes

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.

I think because I can be sad, and I can be lonely, my gift would be trying to help other people feel less lonely and less sad. Because that's what I understand.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.

On 'Awkward,' we really like to send the message out that we're relatable, and that we get what people are going through.

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

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

I definitely, really appreciate that quality that humans like to show constantly, even without saying anything, that they're with you and they're processing something.

Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us in moments of isolation when we think nobody understands.

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

I think being compassionate of each other's lives and issues is nonnegotiable when it comes to friendships. We're all going through different stages and issues, and as I get older, I'm trying to lean into that.

Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.

We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

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.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

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.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.