Agony Quote by Neal A. Maxwell

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

— Neal A. Maxwell

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

“Empathy is defined this way: “the ability to share and understand the feelings of another.” Women talking for hours at a lunch. Men walking…

— Wendy Walker

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone…

— Matthieu Ricard

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Mary Robinson

“At first, as we undertake the cultivation of compassion, we may feel genuine empathy with others in pain or difficulty. This happens when we…

— Joseph Goldstein

“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

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

Compassion offers whatever is necessary to heal the hurts of others.

— Anonymous

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

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

— Dalai Lama