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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity.
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.
Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.
Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.
The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.
Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else.
But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.
Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.
When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.
Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.
My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.
Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
Empathy, humanity and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.
Look at the other side of things even if you know you'll never agree. It creates empathy.
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.
Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.
Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.
Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.
Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.
When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?
The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.
Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.
Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
I believe in empathy. When religion provides that for people, it's the best thing in the world.
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.
When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy.
Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.
We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.
Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.