Empathy Quotes - Page 19

• Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

  Michael Greger

  Caring, Compassion, Role Models

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• We need empathy to give empathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Needs

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• In empathy, you don't speak at all. You speak with the eyes. You speak with your body. If you say any words at all, it's because you are not sure you are with the person. So you may say some words. But the words are not empathy. Empathy is when the other person feels the connection with what's alive in you.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Eye, Connections, Alive

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• Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Block, Understanding, Intellectual

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• We need to receive empathy to give empathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Needs

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• Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Lying, Opinion, Ability

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• Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Giving, Enjoy

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• The more we empathize with the other party, the safer we feel.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Party, Feels

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• The number one rule of our training is empathy before education.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Numbers, Training

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• It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  May, Difficult, Closest

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• Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Protect

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• Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Moving, Our World, Way

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• With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  "Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise".

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• With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Direct

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• It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Resources, Harder

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• Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Goal, Quality, Connections

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.39, PuddleDancer Press

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• To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Feelings, Needs, Able

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• Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Thinking, Connections, Results

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• Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, People, Psychological

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• If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely I am to get me own needs met.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Needs, Harmony, Behavior

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• The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Understanding, Feelings

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• NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Feelings, Negative

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• Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Silence, Rejection, Feelings

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• Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Creative, Wells

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2003). “Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships”, p.11, PuddleDancer Press

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• In nonviolent communication, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests. Then we may wish to reflect back, paraphrasing what we have understood. We stay with empathy, allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before we turn our attention to solutions or requests for relief.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Opportunity, Feelings

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