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writing is a sustained act of empathy. — Andre Dubois

The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy. — Siri Hustvedt

Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much.
~"Disarming (Reign of Blood #2) — Alexia Purdy

Peace,love,empathy — Kurt Cobain

You don't think any job's a job unless it's your job. — Last Man Standing

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

I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up. — Eoin Colfer

I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests. — Brandon Mull

The most potent magics are tied to human truths: beauty and passion and yearning and fortitude and valor and empathy. — Brent Weeks

I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think. — Bat For Lashes

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them. — Donald Margulies

Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning. These six senses increasingly will guide our lives and shape our world. — Daniel H. Pink

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy. — Rebecca Solnit

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience. — William Safire

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. — Neil Gaiman

To perceive is to suffer. — Aristotle.

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Empathy is even better than talking in one language — Rumi

Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen ... One can listen better if one sees the whole. — Bill Drayton

Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct — Dean Cavanagh

But when he's cut, I bleed. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Good change-management
requires the right mix of urgency and empathy. — A.J. Sheppard

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

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity. — Goldie Hawn

Fiction is empathy technology. — Steven Pinker

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

If you can leave a relationship with love, empathy, and compassion, without any thoughts of revenge, hatred, or fear, that is how you let go. — Brian L. Weiss

To be a strong and empathetic person always requires us to trust that God will send angels to the people's heart we tried to reach, but couldn't. — Shannon L. Alder

Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy. — Emma Watson

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings - and sometimes, that has to be at a distance. — Vironika Tugaleva

Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse. — Jon Ronson

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

When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. — Paul Bloom

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize. — Edwidge Danticat

To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person. — Ralph Greenson

Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe. — Shannon L. Alder

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

Mankind needs more empathy. — Philip K. Dick

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

We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person's uniqueness. — Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

True contentment comes with empathy. — Tim Finn

Digital is the age of empathy. — Pearl Zhu

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity. — Stefan Molyneux

Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity ... — Johan Galtung

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. — Abraham Lincoln

Most people know the physical senses, but a lot of people don't know the soul's senses: empathy, trust, intuition, love and harmony — Steven Aitchison

Pretend that you are the soul inside everyone you meet. — Tom Bliss

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

When we can really put ourselves in the shoes of the other, when we can reach new depths of empathy, then we can be effective ambassadors of peace. — James O'Dea

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

Empathy before education. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability. — Vernor Vinge

I coach to help boys become men of empathy and integrity who will lead, be responsible, and change the world for good. — Joe Ehrmann

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

A citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color. — Kofi Annan

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers. — Betty Edwards

Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me. — Leslie Jamison

Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes. — William Arthur Ward

Empathy needs no genius. — Toba Beta

Listen that you may live. — Isaiah

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

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change! — Israelmore Ayivor

Before hurting anyone, especially those who cannot protect themselves, feel their pain with your heart. Take care of them as your little child. — Debasish Mridha

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. — Sue Monk Kidd

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts. — Richard Brookhiser

Bless you for your jealousy; it is a sign of empathy. — Yoko Ono

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action. — Hazel Hawke

We often have very little empathy for our own thoughts and feelings and frequently try to suppress them by dismissing them as weaknesses. — Mark Williams

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. — Tove Jansson

A thousand pounds for clothes
when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so. — Julianna Baggott

The answer was simple. It was the difference between sympathy and empathy. Carl — Ted Chiang

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

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy. — Erica Bauermeister

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

Don't take me for granted. I know more than I let on, see more than you realize., and care more than you can imagine. — Charles F. Glassman

Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life. — Sandra Vischer

Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. — Annie Lennox

I'm not interested in whether you've sat with the great; I'm interested in whether you've sat with the broken. — Unknown

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in. — Ashly Lorenzana

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

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. — David Hume

The truth is, most people don't want advice - they want empathy and compassion. — Debra Fine

Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. — Leslie Jamison

It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life. — Doreen Orion

Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love. — Hal Elrod

Diligence, word-lust, empathy equal growing objectivity and then what? Story. Story. Dammit, story! — Stephen King

One does not remember one's own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us — Anna Funder

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

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

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95) — Karen Armstrong

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? — Harper Lee

The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A man posing for a painting. — David Hume

Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening. — Martina Boone

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy. — Jonathan Tropper

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while. — Malorie Blackman