What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
When you really Love people, you begin to take their pains and hurts personal and treat them like they're your own. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
“So that’s why I’m such a big fan of storytelling. I think the most important thing is empathy. And it’s less about… — Jeanette Walls Copy Share Image
It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them.… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy. — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
The time of childhood love, empathy and care passes. He is at ease and blissful. But this pleasure gradually decreases with age — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
“The essence of having faith in what Jesus had faith in and being a Jesus Follower is to engage in a very… — Robert S. McElvaine Copy Share Image
“People don’t change because being accepted always precedes change. Like any software, their brain can’t invert this process. But this program was… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
I had horrible acne when I was a kid. I felt like a complete and utter ne'er do well and someone who… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
“I believe that a lot of the sociopath’s traits such as charm, manipulation, lying, promiscuity, chameleonism, mask wearing, and lack of empathy… — M.E. Thomas Copy Share Image
What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“How can we be good and kind to one another? Only if we grasp via science or spirituality that everything is innately… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Why was America so kind and yet so cruel? Was there no way to simplifying things in this continent so that suffering… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you!… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“And so your personality is shaped. You know too much, and this knowledge makes you wary. You grow fearful and mistrustful. The… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Obama's attitude toward the rule of law is apparent in the words he used to describe what he is looking for in… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
“When my sister was released from the mental hospital, she came to live with me in the tilting and crumbling one-bedroom house… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
“Just as music is a natural way to empathy, music can also be a way to open you to compassion. Have you… — Will Jelbert Copy Share Image
Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally… — Joan Dunayer Copy Share Image
“Thus, whatever the medical student has been taught, and even genuinely believes, about the ideals of medicine, the primacy of empathy, the… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
God gave us shoulders for us to carry on our burdens; but there are those who still find joy by helping other's… — Leonora R Aquino Copy Share Image
My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love. — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Compassion means knowing that I may never find that person who understands my pain but through my struggle I can become one… — Rachel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The midpoint in medicine between excessive emotional involvement with patients and a complete lack of empathy is not a simple one to… — Christine Montross Copy Share Image
“I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
“Intellectual empathy requires us to think within the viewpoints of others, especially those we think are wrong.” — Richard W. Paul Copy Share Image
Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
“God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the… — Kafu Nagai Copy Share Image