Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands—knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with them.
The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.
I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.
We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.
It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.
Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.
Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.
Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.
Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.
Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
When I'm attached, I find that I don't see the other person as clearly because I'm more caught up in what I'm wanting.
In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.
Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.
Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer
I have dumped a girl over the phone. It's terrible, isn't it? We got into an argument during a phone call, so I basically said, 'I don't wanna be with you anymore,' and she cried. I saw her after that and it was a bit awkward.
Couples who come to understand one another often part.
Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life.
Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance...A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love.
True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.
Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion
We often talk too much & listen too little. The surer route to winning a friend isn't to convince them that you're right, but that you care what they think.
We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.
People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.
By “empathy,” some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.
