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With empathy, I'm fully with them, and not full of them - that's sympathy.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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
Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.
— Marcus Aurelius
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
When we see others cry it is difficult, not because of feeling their pain, but your own.
— Paula Heller Garland
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
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
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
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
I do not think we are born with empathy. We learn it only after we have felt the hurt that we've inflicted on another.
— M.D. Ireman
People do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection
— Natascha Kampusch
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
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
— Oprah Winfrey
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others ...
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?
— Rachel Carson
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Not one tear of His child is ever shed without evoking the most heartfelt empathy and compassion of God.
— Michael Rydelnik
In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.
— Walt Whitman
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
— Sheryl Sandberg
You need to forgive people you don't understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive.
— Shannon L. Alder
I hope you don't listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.
— Barack Obama
IT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING.
— Film Crit Hulk!
Yet such men do not need to imagine a male victim of crime as a brother or son in order to feel empathy.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument
— Andrew Pettegree
Anyone so lacking in empathy that he could systematically torment and physically degrade another should not be suffered to live.
— Patrick Rothfuss
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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 one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy.
— Peter S. Beagle
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
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
Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.
— Frederick Lenz
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
I am not an ornithologist - I am a bird.
— Saul Bellow
Being autistic does not mean I don't have empathy. Stereotypes are harmful. If anything I hyper feel everything and have to try to shut off to cope.
— Tina J. Richardson
Just about every animal," Scott says - not just mammals and birds - "can learn, recognize individuals, and respond to empathy.
— Sy Montgomery
Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.
Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone. — Richelle E. Goodrich
Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.
— John Medina
Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.
— Sarah Manguso
Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.
— Peter A. Levine
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
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Empathy is a kind of care but it's not the only kind of care, and it's not always enough.
— Leslie Jamison
People like it when others fail and suffer. They get assured they are not alone in that predicament
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them;
— Robert A. Caro
Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
— Mia Wasikowska
In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.
— David S. Broder
Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.
— Joseph Fink
If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)
— Karen Armstrong
Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.
— Keira Knightley
When you know the truth about a person then they become real to you, not just a face that you can forget.
— Drea Damara
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
The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.
— Desmond Tutu
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
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
Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.
— Leslie Jamison
An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.
— Shannon L. Alder
Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.
— Brene Brown
Understanding Subtle & Not-So-Subtle Motivations, Helps Grow Consideration, Empathy & Compassion, Which Leads to Forgiveness
— Miriam Sachael
We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice.
— Mamoru Oshii
Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.
— Richard Brookhiser
Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
— Stephen Covey
