Capacity Quote by Daisaku Ikeda

“cultivate an informed empathy with the suffering of all human beings—even those regarded as enemies.”

— Karen Armstrong

The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as…

— Nicole Krauss

Almost all human beings have the capacity for empathy. Everyone has the potential to be at least troubled, or feel genuine anguish, about the…

— Owen Jones

“Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able…

— His Holiness the Dalai Lama

As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings…

— Anonymous

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground…

— Stephen Batchelor

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we…

— Edwidge Danticat

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

— Mary Robinson

To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice…

— Dalai Lama

“We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face.

— L. Whitney Clayton

“There comes a time when everyone should seriously empathise. Wikipedia defines empathy as “the capacity to recognise feelings that are being experienced by another…

— Mango Wodzak