Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.
The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone’s needs.
Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.
Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.
Sharing is Caring – Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.
I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same.
Open, honest communication is the best foundation for any relationship, but remember that at the end of the day it’s not what you say or what you do, but how you make people feel that matters the most.
There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.
Never underestimate your ability to make someone else’s life better – even if you never know it.
There’s a story behind every person. There’s a reason why they’re the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.
I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.
Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.
Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.
All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?
People start to heal the moment they feel heard.
Give me the gift of a listening heart.
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy.
Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.