I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
What makes us different from other species is our capacity for compassion and empathy with the struggles of other people. — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
“He had an absolute empathy for everybody, Magid. And it was an unbelievable pain in the arse.” — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see...Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot… — Ashok Kallarakkal Copy Share Image
Most people have the ability to turn their empathy engine back on, but there's such a seductive burn to not being empathetic. — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
“Whenever an individual’s own needs become so primary that they obscure the perception of another’s needs, mutual concern and empathy cannot exist.” — Judith V. Jordan PhD Copy Share Image
“Good fiction can help us to expand our circle of empathy to include people unlike ourselves.- R' Eitan Levy” — Eitan Levy Copy Share Image
What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“she also knew that the sadness she felt while pregnant, for strangers, for the entire world, did not feel like hormones so… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia - em (into) and pathos (feeling) - a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose… — John Gerzema Copy Share Image
“I realized that it is these two things that staying with regrets offers: It can become the seed of compassion and empathy… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“One of the major reasons why empaths and narcissists are attracted to each other is because of the empaths desire to help… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Learning to practise mindfulness greatly enhances our ability to manifest emotional intelligence and equanimity under pressure and to display calmness, empathy and… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
“If Sally had been in an accident or come down with some overtly physical disease, I would not hesitate to tell him… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empathy is the ability… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
“I’m so sorry,” he said, because after Pamela died, he promised himself that if anyone told him the smallest, saddest story, he… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“There are two types of empathy: the positive empathy and the negative empathy. When we are fully carried away by the unaware… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they're all lazy… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“If you’re treating people poorly then you're not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
“If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
My goal with 'Beyond' is really to create a strong sense of empathy between the player and Jodie Holmes. — David Cage Copy Share Image
Sometimes its not the happy ending you can relate to, But the sad life some one had to live to get there. — Levita Charin Copy Share Image
The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Books by women, people of color, LGBTQ authors, differently abled people, and non-Americans are a great way of broadening horizons and building… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them… — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
People who have been in your shoes empathize with you, while people who haven't been in your shoes sympathize with you. — Jayden Hayes Copy Share Image
Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Persons who have known suffering, have known struggle, have known defeat and loss, have understanding of life if they have self compassion. — Anil Kumar Sinha Copy Share Image
“If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at yourself.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image