I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
“I THINK THAT people confuse a woman with empathy with someone who has the emotional means to raise a child. I’m not… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy;… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't love the word "quirky." I think it's a word that's a catchall. It's a word that doesn't stand in empathy… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“You can't love someone without imaginative sympathy, without beginning to see the world from another point of view. You can't be a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“The Awakening Land" p614 But what in God's name did folks today want to make the whole world over like they were… — Conrad Richter Copy Share Image
Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
I've gotta be honest, it is a little of a mystery to me. I consider myself very sentimental, very sensitive, but obviously… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
“Recently I interviewed a psychopath. This is always a humbling experience because it teaches over and over how much of human motivation… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“If remorse is regret amplified by moral awareness, it implies deeper involvement with the suffering of others, grounded in empathy, reflecting insufficient… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
When I talk about an "empathy bank," I don't mean literally opening up a bank and putting in deposits. What I mean… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the two most important things in developing taste were sensitivity and intelligence. I don't think this is so;… — R. Murray Schafer Copy Share Image
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
“Love, to empaths, isn’t just a shallow experience based on looks, social status or great sex. Instead, love is something that comes… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“Mirror-touch synesthesia could very well scientifically explain why physical empaths seem to “catch” or absorb the illnesses of other people, and also… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
All people share the same desire to be treated equally. We all go through similar emotional journeys from love to hate, rejection… — Dana Tai Soon Burgess 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
Having pets can teach us a lot of things. For kids, they are often their first lesson in responsibility, and being responsible… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
“[M]y sensitivity was unfortunately even more monstrous than my grotesqueness. Yes, my grotesqueness; I possess the courage to judge myself without pity,… — Igino Ugo Tarchetti Copy Share Image
People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart… — Heather Wilson Copy Share Image
![“[M]y sensitivity was unfortunately even more monstrous than my grotesqueness. Yes, my grotesqueness; I possess the courage to judge myself without pity, and to call things by their proper names. If only you knew... how I hate my own self, how much I hate my ugliness, yet never so much as I detest…” quote by Igino Ugo Tarchetti](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b67/igino-ugo-tarchetti-243529_courage_m-y-sensitivity-was-unfortunately-even-m_1456709.jpg)
