Empathy Quote by Judith V. Jordan PhD

“When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the standards of…

— Erik Pevernagie

“To develop empathy, we must care about the experiences, feelings, needs, and wants of the people around us. We must care enough to turn…

— Bob Wall

“The focus on “need fulfillment” that so often accompanies an emphasis on empathy leaves out the possibility that what another may really “need” (in…

— Edwin H. Friedman

“A universal vision and a joint interest are steppingstones for full-blown empathy, and explicitly through empathy, we seize the pulsating assets of ‘sharing,’ sharing…

— Erik Pevernagie

Feel the needs of others more than your own.

— Haile Selassie

“When a child's needs are not met (because they conflict with those of its caretakers), the child's boundaries become defined by the needs of…

— Joel Friedman

“As we acquire a certain degree of equanimity in self-image, we are that much more likely to feel empathy for those around us. We…

— Ram Dass

“The circle of indifference has the self at its centre. The circle of compassion has others at the centre. The former leads to apathy;…

— Shubha Vilas

“Empathy is the mental habit that moves us beyond thinking of people as laboratory rats or standard deviations.”

— Tim Brown

“So if the world were a simple place, where the only dilemmas one had to deal with involved a single person in some sort…

— Paul Bloom

“We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what that looks…

— Russ Ramsey

“How can we get what we truly want while satisfying the needs and concerns of others in our lives—family members, work colleagues, clients, and…

— William Ury