Empathy Quotes - Page 7

• When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

  Jean Renoir

  Interesting, Understanding, Listening

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• You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, Thinking, People

  "Doom and glory of knowing who you are". Jane Howard, Life Magazine, Volume 54, No. 21 (p. 89), May 24, 1963.

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• I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Sympathy, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Real, Sometimes, Okay

  "Sheryl Sandberg Offers Grieving Guidance, Calls for Support Systems After Husband's Death" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 3, 2015.

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• We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Respect, Military, Safety

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• Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

  Temple Grandin

  Baseball, Children, School

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• For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  America, Apathy, Constitution

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• I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, Writing, Three

  Nikki Giovanni (1992). “Conversations with Nikki Giovanni”, p.139, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

  Prince

  Sympathy, Compassion, Understanding

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• Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think are our enemies - the ones we believe are making our situation worse. When you have shown your capacity for listening and understanding, the other person will begin to listen to you, and you have a change to tell him or her of your pain, and it's your turn to be healed. This is the practice of peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

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• Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jun 06, 2011

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• Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

  Helen Keller

  Relationship, Self Esteem, Science

  My Religion (1927) ch. 6

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• The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Real, Things In Life

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• Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Relationship, Sympathy

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• I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in.

  Booker T. Washington

  Race, Office, Leader

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our pain. It demands this of the torturer, placing the victim outside and beyond any form of compassion or empathy, but also demands of everyone else the same distancing, the same numbness.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Pain, Compassion, Numbness

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• They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Giving Up, Home

  Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

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• There's something in everyone only they know.

  Ben Harper

  Knows

  Song: Never Leave Lonely Alone, Album: Both Sides of the Gun, 2006

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• A unique relationship develops among team members who enter into dialogue regularly. They develop a deep trust that cannot help but carry over to discussions. They develop a richer understanding of the uniqueness of each person's point of view.

  Peter Senge

  Motivational, Team, Unique

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• Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

  Jane Fonda

  Trying, Scare, Faces

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• Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

  Rick Warren

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "EXCLUSIVE Rick Warren: 'Flat Out Wrong' That Muslims, Christians View God the Same". Interview with Brandon A. Cox and The Christian Post, www.christianpost.com. March 2, 2012.

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• Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mind, Body, Emotion

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• Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Fiction, Stranger, Essays

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• No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Business, Communication, Silence

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.12, BookBaby

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