Empathy Quotes

We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person’s uniqueness.

I didn't enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy.

Giving and empathy provide us with opportunities to nurture our innate goodness.

Empathy is the key to negotiating and resolving conflict.

Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.

Mankind needs more empathy.

That's the thing about empathy—even people with an abundance of it can run out.

Paul didn't just see emotions. He saw the need they represented.

Writing complex characters is the penultimate exercise in empathy.

When you know the truth about a person then they become real to you, not just a face that you can forget.

We develop more empathy, when we realise that we are all ultimately looking for the same things - love, peace and acceptance.

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)

Fear trumps empathy.

Empathy is a kind of care but it’s not the only kind of care, and it’s not always enough.

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.

When you get caught up on other peoples' problems, solve them with caution so you don't suffer the excessive burdens of regrets.

An inability (or reduced ability) to empathise is not the same as an inability to love. Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic.

Sniff looked at them and noticed that they were much smaller than he was, so he felt kinder and said, condescendingly. "Hullo. Nice to see you.

An android, ” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for."“Then, ” Miss Luft said, “you must be an android.

My mother always tells me that anyone who gets enjoyment from other people's misery will eventually get the greatest discomfort from his or her own miseries.

Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.

Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.

[A] great novel will allow you to transcend the social, racial and political limitations imposed by the vicissitudes of life and to find a deep fraternity based on empathy.

I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. As it turns out, Jack Will didn't need to learn any of these virtues- he already had them in abundance.

Sure, the outcome was favourable, but what was the cost? Wasn't changing the way she felt about something not far from taking away her free will altogether?

Empathy? What’s that?” Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. “It’s a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.

The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

We like who we become in response to injustice: it makes it easy to choose a side. Our capacity to care, to get angry, is called forth like some muscle we weren't entirely aware we had.

Without empathy, there'd be no harmony in diversity

Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed.

Digital age of business and world shall move up from apathy, to sympathy, to empathy.

You don't have to go through someone's pain to understand it. Empathy is enough.

How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others.

The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it.

This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.

Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to.

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.

Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.

Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person's time, because losing time is losing a part of your life.

When we fail to harmonize and integrate, living systems, from individuals to families and countries, tend to move toward either chaos or rigidity.

I had a dream that I was in someone else’s shoes for once…they were the wrong size.

I think if God came down and gave us all His version of Empathy then all the world’s problems would surely become a thing of the past.

Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct

We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice.

When we see others cry it is difficult, not because of feeling their pain, but your own.

Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world.

There comes a time in life that all you need is just someone to listen to you without judging or telling you what you should have done and should do, but simply just listening to you.

To help others, will be rewarded

Help other people, help themselves

But when he’s cut, I bleed.