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10642 Able quotes by 6238 unique authors

I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and… — Judi Dench
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer… — Azar Nafisi
The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of… — Barack Obama
To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were… — Roger Ebert
There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth… — Sue Monk Kidd
The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us.… — Nhat Hanh
We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it… — Nhat Hanh
It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation… — Barack Obama
So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in… — Soren Kierkegaard
If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic.… — Vera Stanley Alder
I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's just the opposite.… — Unknown Author
There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet… — Eugene Kennedy
Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom… — Rachel Naomi Remen
In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can… — Rachel Naomi Remen
To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do… — Nhat Hanh
In transmitting the dharma, there is neither explanation nor teaching; there is neighter hearing nor attainment. Since explanations never really explains, nor are they able… — John Daido Loori
...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness… — John Blacking
If your kitchen table is like mine, you sit there at night before you put the kids to bed and you talk about what you… — Joe Biden
The thing is to be able to outlast the trends. — Paul Anka
If the bill remains what it is now, I will not be able to support a cloture motion before final passage. Therefore I will try… — Joe Lieberman
The idea of having new perspectives on our planet, and actually being able to get that message out, gets me out of bed every day… — Karen Bass
I’d go for Scholesy as the club’s greatest ever player. I’ve seen him do things that no other player can do. The way he can… — Ryan Giggs
What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as… — Angelina Grimke
Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal… — William Rothenstein

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