Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that's not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren't constantly berating yourself for being sad.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.” “What help could I give him? I am no maester, to ease his pain. I have no spell to give him back his legs.” “You gave me help when I needed it” Jon Snow said. “I gave you nothing,” Tyrion said. “Words.” “Then give your words to Bran too.

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

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.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Everyone loves to be loved.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.

The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.

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.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

When you are open about your things, people feel more able to talk to you. I think that's a nice thing, because people get help and don't feel so isolated.

An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.

If you have suffered from trauma, one of the most healing things that can happen to you is being seen. Being seen doesn't have to mean that someone actually lays their eyes on you, although that certainly helps.

I talk about a lot of issues I go through and some of my fans go through and try to create a fellowship where people can relate to each other.

I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.

I understand how it is to be away from your family for so long, to leave your comfort zone, it's not easy. That's why I've never fallen apart with anyone because I understand their perspective, as well.