No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.
Please.
Do not ask us who we are.
The hardest part of grief
Is giving it a name.
You’re the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.
The good you find in others is a reflection of the good that is in yourself.
You should not judge; you should understand.
Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.
Empathy means understanding others on their own terms and bringing them into the orbit of one’s own experience.
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Empathy works so well because it doesn’t require a solution. It requires only understanding.
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.
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