Drew Hays

16 Quotes Only Emotionally Intelligent Empaths Can Relate To

Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it.
Katie Mather
October 4, 2016
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Empathy, sympathy, Grief, Friendship, Pain, Warmth
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.’”
— Elisabeth Kühler-Ross, On Death and Dying
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, gentle, Loving, Concern
“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
— Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, gentle, Loving, heart
“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, gentle, Loving, heart, Being, Pain
“Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
— Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, gentle, Loving, heart, Being, Pain, Destiny
“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”
— Anthon St. Maarten, Why You Should Love Being Sensitive
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, gentle, Loving, heart, Being, Pain, Care, Tears
“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, gentle, Loving, heart, wounds
“Empaths may hesitate to save themselves first because they think that doing so is selfish, which is not the case. If you’re an empath, know how important it is to take care of yourself first in order to be able to help others. Sometimes there is only so much you can do for others; you might even be doing everyone a disservice by stepping over boundaries.”
— Catherine Chea, 8 Everyday Struggles Only People Who’ve Been Described As ‘Empaths’ Can Relate To
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, gentle, Loving, heart, Save Yourself
“Because empaths absorb the energy and emotions of those around them, being around toxic and/or negative sources can take a huge toll on the empath’s physical and mental well-being. They are natural care-givers and want to help (or at least try to) fix situations, which can end up hurting the empath. It’s not always easy for them to recognize when it is time to walk away.”
— Ari Eastman, 5 Things Empaths Have A Really Hard Time With
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, gentle, Loving, Well-Being, Energy
“Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.”
— Shannon L. Alder, Take Better Care of Empaths
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, gentle, Loving
“Empaths did not come into this world to be victims, we came to be warriors. Be brave. Stay strong. We need all hands on deck.”
— Anthon St. Maarten, Why You Should Love Being Sensitive
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion
“She had a very inconvenient heart. It always insisted on feeling things ever so deeply.”
— John Mark Green, John Mark Green Poetry
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, Inconvenient, heart, Deep
“The Empath is often said to have such a great degree of empathy that they can literally feel what others feel, and thus intuitively know many of the yearnings, sensitivities, tastes and even thought patterns of the people they're around.”
— Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, Inconvenient, heart, Yearning
“The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth.' This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognize it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Truth and lies
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, Facts, Truth, Quality
“I’m here to remind you, and myself, that all your feelings are welcome. All your emotions, your ‘too much-ness’, your intensity. All the parts of you that are deep and dark and challenging and hard.

They are welcome. They are beautiful and true. They are healing and powerful. They are the place from which the light is born. They are the reason you can feel so much love and joy.”
— Stephenie Zamora, You Shouldn’t Be Afraid To Feel, Your Feelings Are Welcome
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, gentle, Loving, Well-Being, Energy, Powerful, Healing
“Empaths are born that way, but being empathic is something all, or most, of us can learn. They put others in front of themselves as long as it’s doable. Harmony in any given circumstance is something they strive to create. They are being affected by others’ emotions and energies—so balance is super-important to them. They want to make the desires and wishes come true for the ones around them as often as possible. They want to motivate and inspire others to grow as well.”
— Kristine Einang, 11 Signs Of Emotionally Intelligent People
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, gentle, Loving, Well-Being, Energy, Powerful, Healing, Empathy, Balance