Empathy Quotes

780 Empathy quotes by 496 unique authors

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with… — Ramona Koval
In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and… — Terrance Hayes
Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding. — John Medina
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy. — BrenÃ© Brown
Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole. — Bill Drayton
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself.… — Dani Shapiro
Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection. — BrenÃ© Brown
The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering… — Ram Dass
Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen… — Barack Obama
Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face. — L. Whitney Clayton
Empathy is even better than talking in one language — Unknown Author
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not… — Colum McCann
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others—both human and… — Gregory Colbert
Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth. — John Lamb Lash
At a young age, boys learn that to express compassion or empathy is to show weakness. They hear confusing messages that force them to repress… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Writing is transcendental. It is a form of expression, a form of art that you can take anywhere. That you can do anywhere. It poses… — Darynda Jones
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal… — Seth Godin
The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to… — Carl Rogers
Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's… — John Lennon
I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I… — Joe Shuster
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. — Andre Gide
When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting. — Jean Renoir
To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient. — Peter Drucker
In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead. — David S. Broder
I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell… — Tony Bennett

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