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writing is a sustained act of empathy. — Andre Dubois

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy. — Amanda Palmer

empathy is taken for granted. When it is gone there is no protection against the wild inside of us. — P.M. Barnes

There is no small act of kindness. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Empathy is the key to negotiating and resolving conflict. — Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

What I mean by "empathy" is putting yourself in other people's shoes, feeling what they feel. — Paul Bloom

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture. — Stefan Molyneux

Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone. — Anthony Marais

The gut is the seat of all feeling. — Suzy Kassem

empathy is more powerful than sympathy — Angie Thomas

I've been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere. — Nikki Rowe

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before. — Kelly Corrigan

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy. — Bryant McGill

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love. — Abigail Disney

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart. — Elizabeth Goudge

To engender empathy and create a world using only words is the closest thing we have to magic. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy. — Gillian Anderson

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me. — Terence

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development. — Dave Mearns

Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct — Dean Cavanagh

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him ... The land of tears is so mysterious. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight. — Don Peppers

When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it? — Vironika Tugaleva

Leadership is about empathy. — Oprah Winfrey

Anguish is the universal language — Alice Fulton

Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive. — Parker J. Palmer

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand. — Jules Verne

The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,' she said. 'Never forget that. — Taylor Stevens

All that we can't say is all we need to hear. — Ben Harper

To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt. — Elaine Scarry

The shortest path to peace is listening to understand, empathy and a willingness to compromise to alleviate suffering. — Jeffrey A. White

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them. — Howard Rheingold

Empathy is, first of all, an act of imagination, a storyteller's art — Solnit, Rebecca

Hurting someone will not impress them. Intelligence requires empathy to work. Water is wet. The sky is pink through these rose-tinted glasses. — F.K. Preston

If your moon sign is in Leo, you have a lot of empathy for Leos. You empathize with their approach and their aims and their aura. — Ian Svenonius

Too often it is fear that guides our actions when compassion would better serve. — Dawn Hammill

The best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ... — John Geddes

Reason is powerless when we express love with empathy and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery! — Charles Dickens

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war. — Shannon L. Alder

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy. — Jennifer Haigh

Digital is the age of empathy. — Pearl Zhu

Empathy is walking a mile in somebody else's moccasins. Sympathy is being sorry their feet hurt. — Rebecca O'Donnell

Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage. — Richelle E. Goodrich

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished? — Rachel Carson

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy. — John Connolly

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. — Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is the most powerful weapon [ ... ] — Augusto Boal

Empathy is the wellspring of creativity. — Ami Vitale

When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened? — Ben Carson

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge. — Keira Knightley

Truth is on the side of compassion. — Christina Hoff Sommers

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. — Roger Ebert

Studies have shown that empathy is a vital life skill that helps determine our success even more than a high IQ does. — Kim Russo

Empathy is wonderful, but you can still overdose on it if you try too much to fast. — Nina LaCour

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons. — Jane Addams

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Allowing yourself to become empathic to the point of being traumatized by another's experience is unnecessary and ineffective. — Deborah Sandella

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul. — Desmond Tutu

An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth. — Sanober Khan

IT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING. — Film Crit Hulk!

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. — Meryl Streep

Empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011). — Mikkel Wallentin

The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems. — Simon Baron-Cohen

Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people. — Stephen Covey

Writing complex characters is the penultimate exercise in empathy. — Kevin Focke

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. — Daniel Dennett

Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance. — Brene Brown

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act. — Eric Zorn

Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own. — Chris Milk

Empathy is just another way to talk about yourself. — Goldberry Long

It is my own personal opinion that for someone to state that an autistic person 'lacks empathy' is to declare ignorance of the reality of autism. — Liz Becker

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

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. — Leslie Jamison

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other. — Salma Hayek

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

A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours. — Shannon L. Alder

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' — George McGovern

There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love. — Gregory J. Boyle

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself ... — Joe McMahon

Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name — Eyedea

All violence is based on blindness, on a lack of reflection and empathy. — Azar Nafisi

Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy. — Elizabeth Berg

Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well. — Bruce D. Perry

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't. — Phil Klay

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle. — Gary Bauer

Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human. — Brian Solis

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

It is not the perceived power of money and fame that will change the course of events in one's life, but empathy. — Trever Hagen

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world. — Barack Obama

One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy. — Alex Blumberg

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist. — Khalil Gibran

Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing! — Shannon L. Alder

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy. — David Simon

Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. — Paul Graham

being looked down upon is good for the soul, good for empathy, good training for a human. — Monica Byrne

Empathy is a character trait which ennobles a man. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

To us post-moderns, empathy is a stranger in a strange land".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. — Ursula K. Le Guin