"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."

-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

#Strong Quotes #Offering Quotes #Giving Quotes

“You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.”
“Romance is when after two people have gone through thick and thin together, and have confirmed to become a love that will never change no matter what happens.”
“There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. Im their role model, so I have to make sure Im always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.”

Source : "Gymnast Jordyn Wieber on Staying Focused and Crushing on Justin Bieber". SELF interview, www.self.com. June 27, 2012.
“The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.”
“It's easy to forget how to appreciate your front door when you're always walking through it”
“We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth.”
“The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....”
“Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?”

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