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Empathy Quotes
"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."
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"In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility."
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"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
72
"Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own."
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"Don't criticize them, they are just what we would be under similar circumstances."
67
"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
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"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?""
64
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
59
"She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."
58
"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."
57
"Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint."
57
"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse."
51
"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."
50
"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him."
50
"Your destiny is your responsibility."
49
"The world needs them - the ones who absorb the emotions of others, which diminishes their pain and disquietude and the world also uses them as a repository for confessions, secrets, grudges and indignation. They will leave these uncommon and intuitive individuals feeling unburdened themselves while the unusual individual will be weighed down by having taken on those burdens in addition to their own. The world needs them but what they need is something as aberrant as themselves, and that is silence, stillness and rest."
48
"Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over."
48
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
48
"Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?"
47
"We begin to learn wisely when we're willing to see world from other people's perspective."
46
"There is always a need to understand that others don't think the way that you do."
46
"How could she love him after what he did to her? How could she contemplate taking him back? It's sad that those are the first thoughts that run through our minds when someone is abused. Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?"
44
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
42
"Feel pity for those with insecurities that rest heavy on their shoulders. They'll take every opportunity to negativity judge others. They speak with a sadness in their voice searching for something, anything to make their life feel just a little bit better."
42
"Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you."
42
"To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating."
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"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
41
"The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart."
41
"The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me."
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