“What comes from the heart enters the heart.” What doesn’t come from your heart will never enter someone else’s heart. It takes… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to… — George K. Simon Jr Copy Share Image
I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I feel empathy wherever and whenever someone feels cornered in life. Whenever someone puts in sweat and blood and does not get… — Tanushree Dutta Copy Share Image
We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“I am not interested in your fine calibrations of empathy or your great mission to protect the river of history. I just… — Bee Ridgway Copy Share Image
I think when you've gone through a betrayal in life then when somebody's been betrayed you can talk to the person about… — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human. — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others. — Jean Decety Copy Share Image
“Compassion, empathy, and humility can only arise out of recognizing that our common desires are differently expressed.” — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Michigan has always been a swing state, so we understand that the goal is to have two political parties, debating the issues… — Elissa Slotkin Copy Share Image
If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Your conscience is like the nerve endings in your fingertips. Its sensitivity to external stimuli can be damaged by the buildup of… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Hope becomes an option only when we get involved. Empathy must influence the nature of our interactions. And we must remember that… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
