October 2024 Calendar and the Word is Empathy

1. the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

   “he has a total lack of empathy for anybody”

This word came to me very powerfully so I went with it. Actually I thinkthe world could use more empathy.

Empathy Examples:

Sensing someone’s emotions

 

Imagining yourself In someone’s situation

 

Feeling Sadness for Someone Else’s Sadness

 

Feeling happiness for someone else’happiness

 

Feeling strongly for people who share your Identity

 

Putting yourself in their shoes, mind, and heart

 

Empathy Quotes:

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another. – Alfred Adler.

 

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems. – Stephen Covey

 

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.- Mehmet Oz

 

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it’s accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another’s eyes or heart. – Sue Monk Kidd

 

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

 

Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that  happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.                 — Barack Obama

 

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. — Walt Whitman

 

The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. – Oprah Winfrey

 

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

 

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up. – Jesse Jackson

 

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. – Theodore Roosevelt

 

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold. –  Turkish Proverb

 

If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours. – Dolly Parton

 

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Leo Buscaglia

 

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love. – Criss Jami

 

I sure love quotes and these give us something to think about as we use our October 2024 calendar.

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