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In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble. — Jon Ronson

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting. — Jean Renoir

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology). — Shannon L. Alder

A respectful understanding of another's experience. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

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

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

Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis — Christopher Paolini

Anguish is the universal language — Alice Fulton

The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you. — Brian A. Jackson

Your tears for others will float you closer toward God. — Shannon L. Alder

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one ... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly. — Bob Galvin

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient. — Peter Drucker

The deepest form of understanding another person is empathy...[which] involves a shift from...observing how you seem on the outside, to...imagining — Indi Young

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past. — Shannon L. Alder

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. — Criss Jami

You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money. — Erle Stanley Gardner

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. — Ernest Hemingway,

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding. — John Medina

In the midst of compassion, we find ourselves. We discover our true purpose. — Jana Elston

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive. — Brene Brown

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

I am not an ornithologist - I am a bird. — Saul Bellow

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Understanding breeds empathy. — Christopher Paolini

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. — Karl Rove

If you're treating people poorly then you're not emulating God's love. God always resides with the broken hearted. — Shannon L. Alder

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding. — Gavin Hood

Walk with me for a while, my friend - you in my shoes, I in yours - and then let us talk. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Listen that you may live. — Isaiah

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

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

But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and — Nicholas Sparks

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell — Heinz Kohut

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead. — David S. Broder

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy. — Seth Adam Smith

Empathy is the door to wisdom. — Suzy Kassem

Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else. — Criss Jami

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others. — Mahatma Gandhi

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people. — Tim Kreider

None of us can choose where we shall love... — Susan Kay

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace. — Shannon L. Alder

Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see. — Elizabeth Goudge

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play. — Mia Wasikowska

Understanding Subtle & Not-So-Subtle Motivations, Helps Grow Consideration, Empathy & Compassion, Which Leads to Forgiveness — Miriam Sachael

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

What we understand and love understands and loves us also. — Robert Walser

It takes a great man to make a great listener — Arthur Helps

Treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand. — Kim Harrison

The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others. — Robert Jensen