Empathy Quotes

780 Empathy quotes by 496 unique authors

Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
In nonviolent communication, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests. Then we… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
To do this, you can bring in nothing from the past. So the more psychology you've studied, the harder it will be to empathize. The… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better - BOOM! Off the… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
When you ride the wave, the thrill is so exhilarating that you forget everything else. You live in the moment where nothing else matters, so… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own. — Unknown Author
Empathy provides more than just information about relationships. It is an expression of being in relationship. It is not just a means to better healing… — Maureen O'Hara
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must… — Maya Angelou
When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated this way: when… — Mencius
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional… — Meryl Streep
My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from… — Meryl Streep
I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as… — Meryl Streep
I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the… — Michelle Rodriguez
Plays can create empathy. If you put a Muslim character on stage, and make him a full character, you're making it possible for the audience… — Unknown Author

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