Empathy Quotes · Page 15

It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

— Nora Roberts

I like good food and I've always had a very natural empathy with women.

— Mick Hucknall

“Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

— John Steinbeck

Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.

— Cole Sprouse

Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.

— Nhat Hanh

Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.

— Brian Tracy

Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

— Mark Zuckerberg

“I find it harder and harder to talk about. It’s the frustration. I wish people had been this interested back then –…

— Nicole Morris

When we represent all cultures with sensitivity and truth, we foster a society that supports all people.

— Mena Massoud

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

— Jeremy Rifkin

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

— Anonymous

“By placing attention on what it is like to walk in another’s shoes, we step outside of ourselves and into a never-ending…

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much. ~"Disarming (Reign of Blood #2)”

— Alexia Purdy

Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other….…

— Martin Buber

The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Making a movie is about following characters and embarking on an adventure with them, seeing their reactions, and seeing what they do,…

— Franck Khalfoun

Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to…

— Molly Antopol

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to…

— J. William Fulbright

“Pain does not necessarily lead to growth in character. Improperly processed, pain can lead us to bitterness and destruction. But Jesus demonstrates…

— Kenneth D. Boa

“Daniel Siegel’s theory of mindsight—the brain’s capacity for both insight and empathy—offers a similar “Aha!” He makes sense for us out of…

— Anonymous

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness,…

— Alain de Botton

I was always shy. Writing was my only outlet. Because I always hid in a room, I spent a lot of time…

— Jenny Lawson

“My power is that I can always tell when someone is unhappy, even if that person is pretending to be happy and…

— Charise Mericle Harper

“Can we be sure that they are incapable of the feelings or sentiments that are believed to place them on a lower…

— William Longgood

“In the course of aesthetic experience, the perceiver may be overwhelmed by this 'mere object', overcome with emotion, altered to the very…

— Wendy Steiner

Is there some meaning to this life? What purpose lies behind the strife? Whence do we come, where are we bound? These…

— Dean Koontz

“Empathy is not only a personal feeling; it can be a potent force for political and social change. And thus the suppression…

— Dan Rather

He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks…

— Frank McCourt

“Vulnerability is usually attacked, not with fists but with shaming. Many children learn quickly to cover up any signs of weakness, sensitivity,…

— Gabor Maté

“Honesty and empathy are the cornerstones of connection:”

— Deborah Van Deusen Hunsinger

When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

— Stephen Covey

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

— Ben Harper

“One hug does more to wipe tears than a hundred hours of therapy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

— Daniel Goleman

Be Somebody who makes Everybody feel like a Somebody

— Anonymous

The more we empathize with the other party, the safer we feel.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg