Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Empathy: Emptying our mind and listening with our whole being — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Reading entails empathy, a sort of “trying on” of being another person for a while.” — Tat Wood 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
Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love. — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Use your imaginations, and use your empathy. If you don't do that, you're limiting yourself as an artist, and you're hurting the… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
“Digital-savvy CIOs can envision the upcoming business trends and have both “sense and sensitivity” to understand people and lead effortlessly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person’s uniqueness.” — Arthur P. Ciaramicoli Copy Share Image
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
“My passion is to put empathy at the center of everything I pursue—from the products we launch, to the new markets we… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Real social progress is always a widening of the circle of concern and protection. It's respect and empathy overtaking blindness and indifference.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Empathy - that is, caring about people and acting responsibly on that care, not just for yourself, but for others - this… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“If someone with a high level of authority were to ask me, "Suzy, how can we make people so incredibly stupid and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“It’s not your fault, you know,” Tobias’s voice broke softly into her thoughts. She looked up at the gentle face that he… — Hanna Peach Copy Share Image
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“To care means first of all to empty our own cup and to allow the other to come close to us. It… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Empathy. Most people think empathy is like understanding someone else or relating to them. But it's more than that. Real empathy is… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never… — Arno Gruen Copy Share Image
If you have empathy for both sides, then that's the same as having no empathy at all. — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours? — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy. — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
