“It is Christlike to assume that people are trying to do the best they can. I know I am a better person… — Ashley mae Hoiland Copy Share Image
“Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief.… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“The grey area between right and wrong is something that appeals to a very contemporary sensitivity.” — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
'Me too' became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We need to see kindness and we need to see empathy and compassion. That's something we need to see in leadership as… — Phil Dunster Copy Share Image
I don't think conservativism is about a deficiency. I think it's about a commitment to an ideology that has to in some… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The insensitivity of the military mind is the result of fearing the worst and acting on the basis of worst case scenarios.… — Rikhi Jaipal Copy Share Image
When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather, it is part… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I’m pretty sure all the individuals trying to control other people’s happiness have none in their own lives.” — Sarah Liss Copy Share Image
Guilt at times, actually encourages people to have more empathy for others, to take corrective action, and to improve themselves. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process — Johan Galtung Copy Share Image
“If you knew what is was like to be another person, then how could you possibly do something which would cause pain?… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil.… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
