Empathy Quote by Leslie Jamison

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

— Leslie Jamison

Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires…

— Leslie Jamison

“Empathy is always perched precariously between gift and invasion... Empathy isn't just remembering to say 'that must be really hard' -- it's figuring out…

— Leslie Jamison

“Empathy must be cultivated. The practice of empathy means taking a moment to imagine how you might behave if you were in our positions.…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“And, practicing “radical empathy” means more than trying to reach across divides of race, class, and politics, and building bridges between communities. We have…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“To cultivate empathy means to see the world through the eyes of another without judgement, without trying to "fix" it, without needing it to…

— Judith Hanson Lasater

I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to…

— Leslie Jamison

“It’s hard to feel supported when you can’t tell people everything. People haven’t really got a clue what it’s like. It’s hard to trust…

— Alice Jamieson

The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and…

— Peter A. Levine

“no recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings, and a…

— Janina Fisher

“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing…

— Slavoj Žižek

“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk