"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"

Empathy, Compassion, Suffering, Emotion

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"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"

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"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"

Jay Woodman, British Motivational Speaker

Empathy, Perspective, War, Reality

"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."

Barack Obama, American President

Empathy, God, People, Day, Grace

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Empathy, Humanity, Living

"Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?"

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Empathy, Understanding, Judgment, Life

"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."

Anais Nin, American Author

Empathy, Act, Being, Fate, Poverty

"The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Empathy, Pain, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational

"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Empathy, Shoes, Sores, Individuality

"Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Empathy, Love, Compassion, Healing, Spirit

"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Empathy, Problem, Indifference, Selfishness

"If you have never walked a mile in someone's shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Empathy, Judgment, Understanding, Compassion

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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."

Relationship

"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."

Time

"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."

Nature

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

Thought

"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."

Sacrifice

"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."

Time

"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."

Time

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

Man

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."

Art

"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character."

Character