"Don't criticize them, they are just what we would be under similar circumstances."

Empathy, Criticism, Understanding, Judgment

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"Don't criticize them, they are just what we would be under similar circumstances."

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"When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to-a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Empathy, Perspective, Criticism, Awareness

"If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody else. Which increasingly is something we all need to know."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Empathy, Fiction, Imagination, Perspective

"If you can't see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you're not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself."

Scott Stabile, American Author

Empathy, Self-Awareness, Understanding, Perception

"Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

Empathy, Understanding, Social, Relationship

"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"

Jay Woodman, British Motivational Speaker

Empathy, Perspective, War, Reality

"People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else's."

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

Empathy, Suffering, Awareness, Humanity

"People talk and people listen, but very few care enough to help."

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Swedish Businessman

Empathy, Communication, Care, Help, Listening

"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."

Barack Obama, American President

Empathy, God, People, Day, Grace

"Then I give her a grim shake of my head and say aloud, 'This blows ass.' She nods sympathetically. She doesn't understand, but of course, in her way she understands completely."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Empathy, Confusion, Communication, Sympathy, Understanding

"In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, and I know exactly what you're going through."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Empathy, Experience, Pain, Understanding

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"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."

Emotion

"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."

Integrity

"The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well."

Unity

"God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them."

Religion

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

Identity

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

Inspirational

"I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."

Relationship

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

Freedom

"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day."

Faith