How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a unique ability to distill complex emotions into a few lines, creating a powerful impact that lingers in the hearts… — LaTesha Monique Copy Share Image
“Imagine if we were capable of a form of empathy that lets us know one another by savoring the aura we leave… — Robin Nagle Copy Share Image
Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart… — Heather Wilson Copy Share Image
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It can be rough going to maintain both composure and empathy in these situations, but a doctor's failure to do that is… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Quotations from ‘“THE STRENGTH IN KNOWING” *** Convey to others more compassion, sensitivity, understanding rather than judgementalism” To find pity shall enable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Humans are not innately good (just as they are not innately evil), but they come equipped with motives that can orient them… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Satisfied needs do not motivate. It’s only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
When you start getting into your politics it's like you have to be vulnerable and you have to be sort of sensitive.… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said,… — Andrew Wilson Copy Share Image
When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It's a time when a lot of principle virtues are being tested. Do we still believe in the truth? Do we still… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“When you can begin to see the similarities between you and your work colleagues in respect of ‘being human’ and the collective… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
“Grief ate at these doctors, distracting them from both their families and their patients. Many reported withdrawing from emotional involvement with their… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
If someone's performance is down we do not say, 'Hey pick up your things here.' We do not yell and scream at… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Having pets can teach us a lot of things. For kids, they are often their first lesson in responsibility, and being responsible… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
“[M]y sensitivity was unfortunately even more monstrous than my grotesqueness. Yes, my grotesqueness; I possess the courage to judge myself without pity,… — Igino Ugo Tarchetti Copy Share Image
People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
All people share the same desire to be treated equally. We all go through similar emotional journeys from love to hate, rejection… — Dana Tai Soon Burgess Copy Share Image
What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
As a mentor, you have to be willing to put yourself in your mentee's shoes to understand their struggles that they deal… — Tobias Harris Copy Share Image
“With our advances in technology and obsession with business cost efficiency - yet lack of deep dialogue, empathy and strategy - can… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person. It has both emotional and cognitive… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image
All the comedians that I came up with in Chicago - especially the ones at Second City - actively understood when we… — E. R. Fightmaster Copy Share Image
I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
There are justifiable case-by-case situations wherein an educator might exhibit targeted sensitivity to a student's unique circumstances. This is humane and laudable.… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
“ The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It may be true in the case of autism that if you start off with a deficit in terms of empathy or… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
“Sensitive souls are so needed. You collectively give the world a heartbeat. You collectively give the world a soul. You collectively give… — Jodi Chapman Copy Share Image
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image