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Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.
If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.
The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.
Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating
I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.
If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.
...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.
Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.
The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.
President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others.
I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.
The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.
A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.
If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.
Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.
Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.
Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.
Empathy in broadest sense refers to the reactions of one individual to the observed experiences of another
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice.
Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.
The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.
I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.
Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better at it.
Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.
When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.
Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.