16 Quotes Only Emotionally Intelligent Empaths Can Relate To

16 quotes

Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it.

“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…”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen, amazon.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Empathy, sympathy, Grief

“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 lo…”

— Elisabeth Kühler-Ross, amazon.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”

— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“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…”

— Anthon St. Maarten, orchidrecoverycenter.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“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…”

— Catherine Chea, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“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.…”

— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“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, psychicbloggers.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“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, orchidrecoverycenter.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“She had a very inconvenient heart. It always insisted on feeling things ever so deeply.”

— John Mark Green, johnmarkgreenpoetry.tumblr.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“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…”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, theguardian.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“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…”

— Stephenie Zamora, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“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-…”

— Kristine Einang, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity