Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel… — James Fox Copy Share Image
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can… — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“The first thing missing if you take a robot as a companion is alterity, the ability to see the world through the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The more extreme the story, the more successful it becomes. Emotions on high, empathy engaged, we become primed to help. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“Jealousy says, “Compete with each other.” Envy says, “Destroy each other.” Empathy says, “Help each other.” Love says, “Empower each other.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In general, empathy is easier the more we can identify with someone. When we can genuinely envision ourselves in a situation, it's… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can… — Florence Littauer Copy Share Image
“Working as a white ally is tough, but certainly not impossible. Learning to listen is a virtue that whiteness has often avoided.… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Imagine yourself in your counterpart’s situation. The beauty of empathy is that it doesn’t demand that you agree with the other person’s… — Chris Voss Copy Share Image
We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness.… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“Victimspeak is the trigger that permits the unleashing of an emotional and self-righteous response to any perceived slight. Charges of racism and… — Charles J. Sykes Copy Share Image
Find that thing you are super passionate about. A lot of founding principles of Facebook are that if people have access to… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“To be with another in this [empathic] way means that for the time being, you lay aside your own views and values… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy. — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
“a new formula for acquiring ethical knowledge appeared: Knowledge = Experiences × Sensitivity.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
“When you show love and empathy to people, you draw them closer to your beliefs and traditions” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential. — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands—knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.” — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent. — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
Empathy may not be the most productive emotion; but it is required to maintain relationships. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel… — Tim Brown Copy Share Image