Quotes about Empathy
True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.
- Richard Paul Evans
People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.
- Richard Paul Evans
To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary
- Richard Paul Evans
The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.
- Richard Paul Evans
To love someone is to desire their happiness. [Richelle Bach]
- Richard Paul Evans
takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.
- Richard Paul Evans
The measure of love isn't how much you want someone. It's revealed in what you want for them.
- Richard Paul Evans
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity—awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime.
- Richard Paul Evans
As appreciative as I had already been for their kindness, now I was astounded. In the midst of such heartbreak, this good couple had reached out to me in my pain. For the first time in a long while, I felt hope in humanity.
- Richard Paul Evans
We tend to demonize those we inflict pain on. It lessens our guilt.
- Richard Paul Evans
Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances.
- Richard Paul Evans
Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest. Zeke
- Richard Paul Evans