Empathy Quotes - Page 40

• I had horrible acne when I was a kid. I felt like a complete and utter ne'er do well and someone who didn't fit in and wasn't handsome. So, I understand implicitly, and with a great amount of empathy, a man or human being that feels that way.

  Chris Pine

  Kids, Men, Acne

  Source: collider.com

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• Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Desire, Needs

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.203, New World Library

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• People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

  Sterling K. Brown

  People, Perspective, Judging

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But our social nature also means that we may let ourselves be controlled by the judgments of others, precisely because we care so much about our status in community.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Mean, Hands, Community

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

  Pema Chodron

  Compassion, Mindfulness, Healer

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Moving, Political, Greek

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• Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.

  Samuel Shem

  Years, Three, Lasts

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• No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people.

  Chris Kraus

  Loss, Two, People

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• Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love Is, Compassion, Stronger

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• I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Thinking, African American, Stories

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, and hopefully, something has been illuminated for you. And I tink that's what happendd for a lot of readers with my novels.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Character, Understanding, Plight

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.

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• 'Traveling While Black' is about empathy, what African Americans experience in traveling throughout America, and how it hasn't changed that much from the past. If it can be experienced in virtual reality, then perhaps some empathy can be gained.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Past, Reality, America

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• People with antisocial personality disorders aren't automatically bad - they simply approach the world with a more ruthless set of lenses. The lack of empathy or very weak empathy and the ability to read other people's weak spots can be a flammable combination when you get in the way of something they want. But they aren't a different species. They're a part of our spectrum.

  Eden Robinson

  People, Personality, World

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.

  Eden Robinson

  Use, Logic, Belief

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Details, Stuff, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense and you can commit a lot and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.

  Parker Posey

  Heart, People, Focus

  Source: www.elle.com

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• One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.

  Uma Thurman

  War, Fighting, Progress

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

  Uma Thurman

  Blessed, People, Feels

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's one of the things that weirdly I always used to like about my job: that expressing the emotions of a writer or someone creative and breathing empathy and life into a character people can then identify with, that they'd feel less alone.

  Uma Thurman

  Jobs, Character, Breathing

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear and dogs fight in a pit, racing Jews like horses, and had a life expectancy of less than 50 years. Today there are vegans who won't kill a fly, and yet wars too.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Christian, Dog, Horse

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• A sociopath can imitate emotions, where a psychopath really doesn't have that capacity. They can't fool people into thinking anything and they're usually lacking major empathy for anybody besides themselves.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Thinking, People, Fool

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• I don't like that new age posture where you kind of tilt your head. I don't like that posture right now. I want something a little more confident and more sure of the values that we're defending, which are the old ones, love and empathy and patience and tolerance and civility. Not to get into politics or anything.

  George Saunders

  Want Something, Tolerance, Age

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Giving, Needs

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• There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

  Gloria Steinem

  Emotion, Revolutionary

  "Why Gloria Steinem Says She And Jennifer Aniston Are In ‘Deep Sh*t’". MAKERS Conference Q&A, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Thinking, Ideas, Silence

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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