Guilt at times, actually encourages people to have more empathy for others, to take corrective action, and to improve themselves. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face. — L. Whitney Clayton Copy Share Image
“I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“IT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING.” — FILM CRIT HULK Copy Share Image
“Rather than fearfully shutting down your sensitivity, dive in deeper into all possible feeling. As you expand, keep only those who are… — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
“To be sensitive, as ideologically defined, requires that one not merely accept but “affirm” other people’s way of life or even “celebrate”… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
If I see someone break down in tears, I don't necessarily feel empathy for them in those moments unless it's really warranted.… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
“As soon as we open our eyes in the morning, what we want most is to matter, to live a life and… — Bernadette Jiwa Copy Share Image
By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of… — Charles Ricketts Copy Share Image
“The ability to reason is what gives us our capacity to have empathy for others, to value life itself. Our ability to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us,… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was an age in which it was clear to me that my parents weren't perfect, but then there was an age… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
“(In part, quoting Robert Keegan from Harvard):'When we take the risk of really witnessing another human being, when we validate their human… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
“Books, by their very nature and variety, help us grow in empathy for others, in tolerance and awareness. But they should increase… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“one way in which severe sociopaths do have a certain, frightening type of empathy. It is the empathy of the predator. A… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy.” — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change. — Max Carver Copy Share Image
“Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding. — John Medina Copy Share Image
I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place to go, it's often turned into anger or frustration. — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
“My sensitivity to all things new is a constant affliction to me; I only feel safe in places I have been in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids. — Brimstone Copy Share Image
