“Good flirting is fundamentally empathetic. It's about building desire and it's often pretty subtle. It's paying such deep attention to another person's emotions and body language that you create more intimacy with them. It's a two-way, playful, fun exchange that makes everyone feel good.”— Kate Willett, facebook.com
“I love to be flirted with. I don't like being sexually harassed. These two things are not the same, and if you're arguing the point "now men can't flirt anymore," you don't understand what flirting is or you're just pretending not to in order to set up a straw man argument in favor of sexual harassm…”— Kate Willett, facebook.com
“We need to teach our friends, our family, and ESPECIALLY our children the importance of love, empathy, and overall what it means to be a good person. Just stop hurting people!!! It’s that simple.”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“You may have internalized early in your life that your needs were not as important as others’ needs were. Lack of empathy from a parent or caretaker, neglect, blame, criticism, failure to accept you as you are and appreciate your qualities and other such experiences have shaped your belief that othe…”— Nina W. Brown, amazon.com
“We won't survive this century unless we start caring more about each other. Compassion. Empathy. Love. The internet has connected us, now it's up to our hearts to do the rest.”— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com
“If you are trying to be more opinionated than you are empathetic, you are not living up to your full potential.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“Empathy is the skill or ability to tap into our own experiences in order to connect with an experience someone is relating to us. Compassion is the willingness to be open to this process.”— Brené Brown, twitter.com
“It’s not possible to hate someone who you truly understand. Empathy and increased understanding is the solution to many of the world’s ills.”— Jordan Bach, twitter.com
“i am relieved. when i see the feminine presence in a man's eyes. it means he is a peace i do not have to bring to him.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“…Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.”— Joan Bauer, goodreads.com
“If you hold close to nature, to what is simple in it, to the small things people hardly see and which all of a sudden can become great and immeasurable; if you have this love for what is slight, and quite unassumingly, as a servant, seek to win the confidence of what seems poor - then everything wil…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“there’s no way I am breaking into pieces [anymore] to put someone else back together. boundaries. I did that for too long.”— Alex Elle, amazon.com
“To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.”— Irving Stone, amazon.com
“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”— Emily Haines, musicomh.com
“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com