“So regardless of the station we occupy; we have to try harder; to start with the premise that each of our fellow citizens loves this country just as much as we do; that they value hard work and family like we do; that their children are just as curious and hopeful and worthy of love as our own.”— Barack Obama, latimes.com
“Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself: All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“I’m truly a vacuum filled by the folks I’m with, and vapidly neutral in their absence. Something in me defaults to an easeful plasticity, a modularity”— Jonathan Lethem, amazon.com
“Sometimes only a calm presence and compassionate listening are necessary.”— Stan Goldberg, nytimes.com
“You learned early on that physical age is not synonymous with intuition, empathy, creativeness or general intelligence.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“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
“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
“Adversity in almost all the presidents I’ve studied changes them. For Teddy Roosevelt, in 1884, losing his wife and his mother on the same day, in the same house. He goes to the Badlands, and he’s suddenly out among people. Both he and F.D.R. had to move beyond their privileged class. Polio and his…”— Doris Kearns Goodwin, vanityfair.com
“We’ve heard Japanese users described products as ‘unnatural’, ‘foreign’, and ‘suspicious.’ Pinterest, in Japan since 2013, began refining Japanese type last year after an employee described their homepage as ‘when someone tries to overcome a language barrier by talking louder.”— Eiko Nagase, medium.com
“Love is in us. It's deeply embedded in the brain. Our challenge is to understand each other.”— Helen Fisher, ted.com
“There is no person who is all bad. There is also no person who is all good. Therefore, none of us have the right to judge each other.”— Soft Grung, twitter.com
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”— Bill Bullard, facebook.com
“Overflow menus seem like the perfect solution. Designers can ‘take away’ complexity and leave just the really important bits. You can quickly and easily create a clean looking user interface. The trouble with overflow menus is that you didn’t actually take anything away, you just obnoxiously obfusca…”— Daniel Burka, medium.com
“Like just about anything, overflow menus have a time and a place where they don’t totally suck. But, the appropriate place for an overflow menu is probably not your project and probably not the spot you’re thinking about. So, think long and hard before you resort to using one.”— Daniel Burka, medium.com
“Compassionately understand that everyone is on his or her own path and, furthermore, honor where everyone is on that journey at every moment. No fear, no hatred, bigotry or animosity, just deep understanding, empathy, love, and respect for all beings.”— Timber Hawkeye, amazon.com
“Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being.”— Barbara L. Fredrickson, goodreads.com
“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”— Brené Brown, goodreads.com