I feel like there is a real lack of empathy - not just in American society, it's definitely happening in Britain as… — Clare-Hope Ashitey Copy Share Image
“What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I have tremendous empathy for people who are faced with any kind of a chronic problem. Sometimes when we're in this situation,… — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
My wish list is pretty short. I wish that we had empathy. As a society, we are so wrapped up in our… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states:… — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
“If you want to help someone move on, you don’t label people as good, bad, worst or best. This categorizes people, rather… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Reading is the act of listening and speaking at the same time, with someone you've never met, but love. Even if you… — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to… — George K. Simon Jr Copy Share Image
We now know, from the latest research about neurons, that we are hard-wired for empathy. We're hard-wired for cooperation. That is something… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“Everyone has it within their heart to be vegan, but each time they eat anything from an animal they deny that this… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“I asked Patrick if he felt sad that he had to keep it a secret, and Patrick just said that he wasn't… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
What I am unable to understand with the people who associate themselves with Trump is their willingness to overlook the dishonesty, the… — Daniel Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
I guess my point in general is that, if you look closely, who is in politics to self-identify - these are the… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
It's why I fell in love with movies. You can sit in a movie theater and be transported to a place that… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess,… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Leadership requires the ability to engage and to create empathy for communities with disparate needs and ideas. Telling an effective story -… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
“I'd long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Intelligence is an elegance of excellence with an endurance of empathy, efficiency and effervescence of self-reliance with self-confidence besides an effective respect… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human… — Baroness Emma Orczy Copy Share Image
“People who exude genuine charm & charisma seem to possess a heightened sensitivity to the feelings of others—delivering gentle manners, gracious compliments,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“To develop empathy, we must care about the experiences, feelings, needs, and wants of the people around us. We must care enough… — Bob Wall Copy Share Image
“If empathy is the skill or ability to tap into our own experiences in order to connect with an experience someone is… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
“My mind felt numb, like I couldn't really grasp the hurtful things that I had just recently learned. I was well aware… — Courtney Cole Copy Share Image