"Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the……" — Matthieu Ricard
"Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering."
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55 Quotes by Matthieu Ricard
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By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not…
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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by…
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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can…
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Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom,…
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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment.…
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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies…
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By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What…
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Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of…
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I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize…
— Andrea Arnold
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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly…
— Christian Bale
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I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We…
— Javier Bardem
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
— Gary Bauer
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Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
— Scott Adams
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The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
— Theodor Adorno
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
— Joyce Brothers
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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
— Jimmy Buffett
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving…
— Leo Buscaglia
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