Empathy Quotes
Empathy Quote of the day
Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.
Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
I couldn’t even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita’s sadness.
One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering, " a deep healing begins.
Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.
GLOUCESTERNow, good sir, what are you?EDGARA most poor man made tame to fortune's blows, Who by the art of known and feeling sorrowsAm pregnant to good pity.
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.
This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, -- which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man.
So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.
Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.
The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.
Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.
. . as A martial arts teacher, we should never forget the first time we stepped onto the Dojo ground, remembering this, we will be better equipped to teach the next generation of Karate practitioners
When you know the truth about a person then they become real to you, not just a face that you can forget.
Compassion can be learned through example
We develop more empathy, when we realise that we are all ultimately looking for the same things - love, peace and acceptance.
It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.
To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)
Here we are, you and I, and I hope that Christ makes a third with us. No one can interrupt us now... So come now, dearest friend, reveal your heart and speak your mind." (p. 29)
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.
Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.
Empathy is a kind of care but it’s not the only kind of care, and it’s not always enough.
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us
So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.
Too often it is fear that guides our actions when compassion would better serve.
