There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
“For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I believe one of the requirements of good leadership is the ability to listen - really listen - to those in your… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, …… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life. It's a very beautiful thing and a very real thing… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a… — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest advantages of being an empath is that experiencing a spiritual awakening is virtually inevitable. In other words, spiritually… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
In order to recognize small changes in effort, the effort itself must first be reduced. More delicate and improved control of movement… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy,… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“You might have thought I’d worry about him, about causing him pain or at least embarrassment. I simply didn’t. I felt the… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
The problem is, for men and women, the idea that sexuality is about dominance and submission, when, in fact, cooperation is a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's easy to isolate yourself when you're buried in work, or to rely only on work friends for empathy. And while your… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There… — Jane Fonda 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
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration,… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I've always explored various areas of society. And I love the young people. And I had an empathy for prisoners and did… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work.… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under… — Adrienne Rich 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
“If you believe, God is the supreme creator of everything, then God is also the one who gave you a brain. Use… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
'Traveling While Black' is about empathy, what African Americans experience in traveling throughout America, and how it hasn't changed that much from… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
