I feel what's happened in our society in contemporary times is a severe lack of empathy. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
“It's the discomforting end of humankind's bargain with consciousness. We empathize with other beings and imagine we feel their pain. Either the… — Peter Steinhart 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
Remember that for someone to be so mean, something must be going on with them. Something must be happening to make them… — Laura Michelle Kelly Copy Share Image
If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience.… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
We now know, from the latest research about neurons, that we are hard-wired for empathy. We're hard-wired for cooperation. That is something… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“It is so important for us as empaths to maintain a sense of connectedness with life. When we put up walls to… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One… — Oliver Kahn Copy Share Image
The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response. — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“Love, to empaths, isn’t just a shallow experience based on looks, social status or great sex. Instead, love is something that comes… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
I will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun by… — Munshi Premchand Copy Share Image
Every time you cry a tear, my heart cries along. But you'll never know cause I wouldn't tell. Every time you're hurt,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when… — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
