Best 1068 quotes in «empathy quotes» category

All actual life is encounter.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

A man posing for a painting.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is "born with", but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.

And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own.

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

A respectful understanding of another's experience.

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

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.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.

A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough in the process, we can always ask, "Is there more that you wanted to say"?

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.

As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.

Be Somebody who makes Everybody feel like a Somebody.

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions.

But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.

Compassion is a verb.

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

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

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

During empathy one is simply 'there for' the other individual, when experiencing their own feelings while listening to the other, i.e. during sympathy, the listener pays attention to something about themselves, and is not 'there for' the client. Consider how you would feel if you sensed that the individual listening to you was getting into their own 'stuff' rather than hearing and reflecting exactly what you were feeling in a moment of need?

Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.

Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.

Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

Empathy: Emptying our mind and listening with our whole being

Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

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

Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.