Care Quote by Paul Bloom

“If empathy is the skill or ability to tap into our own experiences in order to connect with an experience someone is relating to…

— Brené Brown

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

— Dalai Lama

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

— Hazel Hawke

Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.

— Karen Armstrong

“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

Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself…

— Richard Carlson

“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

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody…

— Paul Bloom

“I think people believe empathy to be compassion, that compassion is an inner sense (a sense of the soul). But empathy is a sense,…

— C. JoyBell C

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

— Deepak Chopra

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

— Gary Zukav

The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person,…

— Daniel Goleman