empathetic response Quotes

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

I think empathy is really important for pleasure.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to detect the hunger of others when we are hungry; and in the power to reach out and extend compassion for the spiritual agony of others when we are in the midst of our own spiritual distress.

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.