“...were we so blind to the world teetering on the edge that we never straightened up from what we were doing to… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“While I may not appreciate someone’s actions in the moment, it is useful to try to understand and relate to the possible… — Kathy Obear Copy Share Image
Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth. — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
“If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation… — Gina Maranto Copy Share Image
“Let’s choose kindness. Let’s choose love. And let’s walk across these bridges—with open hearts, open minds, and hand-in-hand with our fellow humans.” — Steve Ghikadis Copy Share Image
George Saunders is the funniest. He makes me laugh in the way I want to laugh - with so much empathy and… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
If you listen, a person's silence will help you to understand in ways that words simply cannot. — Michael Loud 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
A citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives,… — Neil Gaiman 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
“Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.” — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“For example, many of us have been raised to believe that empathy and sympathy are desirable traits to develop. Because we all… — Jim Self Copy Share Image
Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I. — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
“She reminded him of the small team of Starfleet officers who had rescued him from certain death on his homeworld many years… — David Mack Copy Share Image
“At first, as we undertake the cultivation of compassion, we may feel genuine empathy with others in pain or difficulty. This happens… — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
