Logic and empathy are difficult bed partners.

“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the…

— Anthon St. Maarten

“There is more for us to gain through love than hate.”

— Suzy Kassem

“Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Defeat winter, read a book.”

— Bibiana Krall

“Your dignity will never know cages and days without showering. Will never know the shame of running from a place because you weren't born…

— K. Eltinaé

“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well…

— Ian Leslie

“Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self will weaken…

— Paul Isaacs

“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was penned to encourage mankind to embrace a brotherly and sisterly bond. However, if our own flesh and…

— Yvonne Padmos

“There's no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity.”

— Germany Kent

“Only those who have been on the receiving end of poverty, unemployment, homelessess, mental illness, domestic violence, racism, sexism or ageism can fully identify…

— Hugh Mackay

“Now, more than ever, our society is in need of sensitive and empathic people. Now, more than ever, the human race needs to go…

— Aletheia Luna

I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. And what I discovered in the…

— Jennifer Lawrence

The crux is this: you can't be sincerely empathic towards and angry at someone at the same moment. In other words, you can't walk…

— Mark Goulston

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components…

— Carl Rogers

Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're…

— Stephen Covey