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With empathy, I'm fully with them, and not full of them - that's sympathy.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.
— Gloria Steinem
You don't think any job's a job unless it's your job.
— Last Man Standing
What I mean by "empathy" is putting yourself in other people's shoes, feeling what they feel.
— Paul Bloom
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
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.
— Joe Abercrombie
Practice empathy. Try to see things from other people's points of view.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
A respectful understanding of another's experience.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
I think it's a good idea to always question authority, but don't judge, have empathy towards your fellow man.
— Bobby Blaze Smedley
Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt ... you're a better witness for what's beautiful.
— Matt De La Pena
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.
— Douglas Adams
If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at yourself.
— Paul Auster
Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.
— Hazel Hawke
But when he's cut, I bleed.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.
— David James
Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side's demands - knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with them.
— Daniel Goleman
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
— Andre Gide
I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.
— Vanessa Hudgens
It's not so much the journey that's important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way
— Jeremy Aldana
Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul.
— Michele Jennae
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
To make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.
— Marianne Wiggins
You know that it's hard work to consistently apply self-awareness, empathy, and self-control,
— Jen Shirkani
I was one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy.
— Peter S. Beagle
Empathy for the people you're working with and being aware of their needs ... that's the "big kahuna" in managing people.
— Barbara Corcoran
I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.
My mom feels it all. — Richelle E. Goodrich
Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
There's something in everyone only they know.
— Ben Harper
I wouldn't expect someone who's been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.
— John Napier
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
Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.
— Leslie Jamison
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.
— Duane Hewitt
But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.
— Cheryl Strayed
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
If you're treating people poorly then you're not emulating God's love. God always resides with the broken hearted.
— Shannon L. Alder
I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length.
— Mike Weaver
Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
Allowing yourself to become empathic to the point of being traumatized by another's experience is unnecessary and ineffective.
— Deborah Sandella
We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
— Susan Glaspell
Empathy is walking a mile in somebody else's moccasins. Sympathy is being sorry their feet hurt.
— Rebecca O'Donnell
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
— Max Carver
The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.
— Ashton Kutcher
Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.
— Albert Einstein
I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?
— Jennifer Jason Leigh
There is nothing like another's perspective to remind you that your way is not the right way; it is simply your way.
— Chris Matakas
Until you have stood in another woman's stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.
— Shannon L. Alder
Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.
— Paul Bloom
Empathy is, first of all, an act of imagination, a storyteller's art
— Solnit, Rebecca
One must always forgive another's passion.
— Pat Conroy
Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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
I'm pretty sure all the individuals trying to control other people's happiness have none in their own lives.
— Sarah Liss
Audiences will admire your character's strength but connect with them through their weakness.
— Don Roff
Empathy is a kind of care but it's not the only kind of care, and it's not always enough.
— Leslie Jamison
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
It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.
— Stewart Butterfield
Today's society is wanting in such a way that Honor, Integrity, Trust, Compassion, Empathy are left for the homeless and their pets.
— Solange Nicole
In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.
— David S. Broder
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
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
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
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
— Malorie Blackman
Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.
— Keira Knightley
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
— Sue Monk Kidd
I'd rather feel empathy for a character that's fictional, so it doesn't quite tie into personal experience as much.
— Henry Cavill
Empathy: Looking Out the Patient's Window
— Irvin D. Yalom
Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.
— Richard Kearney
No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself.
— Shannon L. Alder
It's horrible if someone delights in someone's failures. It's horrible if someone feels bad when someone does good.
— K.R. Royal
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
Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.
— Daniel Goleman
Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.
— Leslie Jamison
It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.
— Geraldine Brooks
The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.
— William Ickes
It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.
— Leslie Jamison
Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.
— S. Kelley Harrell
Become the world's most thoughtful friend.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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.
— Margaret Atwood
The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision - plus it's a lot of fun to read.
— Myla Goldberg
