Empathy Quote by Amy Reed

“What Erin wants to do with pain is fix it, make it go away, and sometimes that's not what other people want.”

— Amy Reed

“keep in mind that even those who love you can unknowningly inflict pain when they themselves are hurting”

— Sarah Dosher

“keep in mind that even those who love you can unknowingly inflict pain when they themselves are hurting”

— Sarah Dosher

“Because sometimes pain is knowing, and sometimes pain is sharing that knowledge with someone who loves you but can't do anything to help.”

— Lisa Gardner

“The way you engage someone's pain either reinforces their pain or helps to release it.”

— Bryant McGill

“When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk…

— Megan Devine

“Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn’t make it better.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

“Hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”

— Mitch Albom

“Stop caring what other people think Erin. Life's too short to live by other people's rules”

— Lurlene McDaniel

“People in pain can be very self-destructive. And sometimes they pull in the people who are close to them, often without realizing.”

— Sara Barnard

“while one person can never really share the pain of another, they can so easily and so heedlessly add to it.”

— Twan Eng Tan

“If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being…

— Sharon Salzberg