Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Tenderness from empaths will be used against them time and time again by psychological abusers.” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“When our sensitivity to feel pain decreases, so does our sensitivity to feel joy with it.” — Johnson Bandi Copy Share Image
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection” — Natascha Kampusch Copy Share Image
“It is my own personal opinion that for someone to state that an autistic person 'lacks empathy' is to declare ignorance of… — Liz Becker Copy Share Image
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I feel like there is a real lack of empathy - not just in American society, it's definitely happening in Britain as… — Clare-Hope Ashitey Copy Share Image
“What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“How can we be good and kind to one another? Only if we grasp via science or spirituality that everything is innately… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Why was America so kind and yet so cruel? Was there no way to simplifying things in this continent so that suffering… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
“The abnegation of empathy in the case of something as complex and variable as sexual taste is a dangerous thing. The particular… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“The impossibility of 'fellow feeling' is itself the confirmation of injury. The call of such pain, as a pain that cannot be… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share Image
We have a broken system, and we need politicians who are going to fix it. We need someone who's going to govern… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
I recommend allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief. When we… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“ Silence Never Silence never healed the lonely. Silence never comforted the broken hearted. Silence never saved a life. Silence never won… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I think most of us have many personas inside us at the outset, but over time we lean to the one that… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“I am an artist, and a rebel one at that. I live in the voluptuous dimension of imagination, so if you're expecting… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Nowhere in the bible did it say, “Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
It was so interesting going to high school in New York. You get a callous to the city and an empathy for… — Alex Wolff Copy Share Image
For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We all need to listen to our empathy and step towards kindness and I think books help you to remember that you're… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
“Microsoft no longer employs people, people employ Microsoft… I know we are on the right track when I hear a colleague express… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
“Like so many champions of justice, she possessed empathy in the abstract, but sometimes fell short when confronted with the flesh-and-blood reality.” — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
“Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to… — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
If you weep you will weep alone but If you weep loudly enough,people will be ready to mingle their tears with yours. — Kishore Bansal Copy Share Image
There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“Tragedy was a strong bond, a common denominator that united people in a community of empathy, however different their lives and how… — Howard Rosenberg Copy Share Image
