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Empathy Quotes
"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."
5
"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."
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"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."
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"Don't judge someone's choices without first knowing their reason."
"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."
"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."
"It is unfortunate that many people today cannot realize the need around them."
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
"Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people."
"If you see a person who is suffering from misery and sadness, wash it away with your compassion and kindness."
"Don't talk, just listen, and feel with all your heart."
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse."
"Compassion brings people together."
"To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating."
"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."
"There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you."
"Make a difference about something other than yourselves."
"Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?"
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
"Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use."
"There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs."
"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."
"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."
"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
"If you have never walked a mile in someone's shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet."
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