You would never survive a day in my skin, so don't try to tell me you know how I feel. — Colin Olsen Copy Share Image
I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Acting is probably the only profession where you are relying only on empathy. — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image
Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands—knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.” — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential. — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
“When you show love and empathy to people, you draw them closer to your beliefs and traditions” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of empathy you need to have, and I've also never been one to call it in. I know… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect… — Henry Reed Copy Share Image
To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual… — Nathan Goldstein Copy Share Image
“She had been defeated by herself alone, and the sadness of it left a dark shadow in her heart. It further sapped… — Yo Yo Copy Share Image
“Empathy, the Greeks believed, was a source of strength, not softness; the more you recognized yourself in others and connected with their… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I recommend allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief. When we… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“I am an artist, and a rebel one at that. I live in the voluptuous dimension of imagination, so if you're expecting… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I think most of us have many personas inside us at the outset, but over time we lean to the one that… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“ Silence Never Silence never healed the lonely. Silence never comforted the broken hearted. Silence never saved a life. Silence never won… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We have a broken system, and we need politicians who are going to fix it. We need someone who's going to govern… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
“The impossibility of 'fellow feeling' is itself the confirmation of injury. The call of such pain, as a pain that cannot be… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share Image
“The abnegation of empathy in the case of something as complex and variable as sexual taste is a dangerous thing. The particular… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
