I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them… — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
People who have been in your shoes empathize with you, while people who haven't been in your shoes sympathize with you. — Jayden Hayes Copy Share Image
“If you’re treating people poorly then you're not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
My goal with 'Beyond' is really to create a strong sense of empathy between the player and Jodie Holmes. — David Cage Copy Share Image
“If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Sometimes its not the happy ending you can relate to, But the sad life some one had to live to get there. — Levita Charin Copy Share Image
In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
As a mentor, you have to be willing to put yourself in your mentee's shoes to understand their struggles that they deal… — Tobias Harris Copy Share Image
What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The more you learn about someone, how could you not want to protect them and their rights? The more you learn about… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
When were you born, who are your parents, where did you grow up? None of us earns these things. These things were… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I think it's so important that, if I'm writing about the real world, I stay true to it. I think that kids… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Things would hurt me in a big way because I didn't seem to have a very thick layer of skin, but this… — Missy Higgins Copy Share Image
“NON-EMPATHS naturally put themselves first. They experience themselves in vivid color, brighter and more interesting than everyone else. Granted, a non-empath will… — Rose Rosetree Copy Share Image
“We are a package deal, however. Our trait of sensitivity means we will also be cautious, inward, needing extra time alone. Because… — Elaine N. Aron Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest barriers to going back is related to empathy. If our goal is perfection rather than growth, it is… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy. People want America to have a certain… — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
“If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at yourself.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Persons who have known suffering, have known struggle, have known defeat and loss, have understanding of life if they have self compassion. — Anil Kumar Sinha Copy Share Image
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“Empaths did not come into this world to be victims, we came to be warriors. Be brave. Stay strong. We need all… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“You need to forgive people you don't understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Sensitivity is a sign of strength. It's not about toughening up, it's about smartening up. — Marie Forleo Copy Share Image
