Empathy Quotes · Page 19

“COMPASSION = NOTICE, Feel, RESPOND EMPATHY = COMPASSION + IMAGINATION”

— Kelsey Crowe

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

— Walt Whitman

“Most of the suffering in the world could be avoided if people choose to do good.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own.

— Martin Hoffman

I have such a crush on Tony Robbins and his passion, empathy, and sheer talent.

— Krysten Ritter

My sensitivity level is high, but I think that's one of my assets as an actor.

— John Turturro

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

— Rebecca Solnit

I want you to understand me more than you sympathize with me.

— Terry Mark

To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that's going on here and now.

— Deepak Chopra

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get…

— Stephen Covey

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

— Brené Brown

“No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.”

— Debasish Mridha M.D

Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become…

— Colin Powell

“All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn…

— Criss Jami

“Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.”

— Shannon L. Alder

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how…

— Mike Tyson

When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight…

— Bryan Stevenson

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps…

— Idina Menzel

Because I came into fame so early on, I've never done that. I don't investigate through the Internet about people who I…

— Penn Badgley

“Politics aside, empathy is not about being nice or agreeing with the other side. It’s about understanding them. Empathy helps us learn…

— Chris Voss

When I did the original research for 'Odd Girl Out,' I asked every bullied girl I interviewed to tell me what she…

— Rachel Simmons

If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder…

— Leslie Jamison

I've had empathy toward what Carson McCullers calls "the invisible people" all my life and was inherently interested in what redeemed Mancil…

— Will Kimbrough

Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I…

— Jim Shepard

Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best,…

— Questlove

When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you,…

— Carl Rogers

“Do you know what it is?' [Toby] said thoughtfully. 'It's that they haven't had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder…

— Michelle Cooper

“The distorted concept of 'loving thyself' in our times is the root of all evil. It leads to egotistical and narcissistic behaviour,…

— R.P. Heaven

We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we…

— Nhat Hanh

I hope that if the people who read my work encounter people in the real world who are like the characters that…

— Jesmyn Ward

The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow…

— J. William Fulbright

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

— Frans de Waal

“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

— Charles Kimball

I tend to side with people who are considered the underdog. I have empathy.

— Amanda de Cadenet

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

— David Hume

I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer.

— Richard Flanagan

The number one rule of our training is empathy before education.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain.”

— Timothy W. Tron