EMPATHY

"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn." --Alice Miller

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?" --Henry David Thoreau

"Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing." --Rachel Naomi Remen

"The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention." --Daniel Goleman

"Empathy is full presence to what's alive in the other person at this moment." --John Cunningham

ACCEPTANCE

"Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
" --Albert Ellis

"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." --William James

"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance." --Nathaniel Branden

"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance." --Brian Tracy

PASSION

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." -- Harriet Tubman

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." --Nelson Mandela

"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." --George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."  --Albert Einstein

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." --Nelson Mandela

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it." --William James

JUDGMENT

"A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment." --Liz Carpenter

"Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity." --Jasmine Guy

"If you are pained by external things, it is not that they disturb you, but your own judgment of them.  And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment, now."  --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

     "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." --Carl Jung

"Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances." --Wayne Dyer

 

RELATIONSHIPS

“A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.” --Rainer Maria Rilke

"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods." --Denis Waitley

"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." --Quentin Crisp

LIFE FORCE

“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”  --Martha Graham

"Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts." --Napolean Hill

“Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process.  Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the lief of the organism.  It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about,  and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritural energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected."  --Kabbalah