Empathy Quote by Rebecca Solnit Download Open image “We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.” — Rebecca Solnit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empathy
I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
There are things that feel so small but are such a big part of life. — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
We can have whatever it is we choose, I don't care how big it is. You become what you think about, but you also… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be bigger… — Lizzo Copy Share Image
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I have a lot of empathy, and I think that's where mothering starts. You are there to empathise and facilitate. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Making a movie is about following characters and embarking on an adventure with them, seeing their reactions, and seeing what they do, having empathy… — Franck Khalfoun Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I try to treat every job with the exact same level of respect. When I go into it, it doesn't matter what the budget… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
“CWC (Church Women Concerned) enabled us as women in that part of South Africa, to see ourselves as ordinary citizens who found themselves in… — Sindiwe Magona Copy Share Image
Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot. — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image