Browsing Topic Best Empathy Quotes

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate, it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Man’s inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being’s suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we’re going to survive with dignity.

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we’d like each other a little bit more.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Every moment that you share someone else’s pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.

When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture’s purpose was to disclose them.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

There’s a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness, but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn’t really accomplish anything.

Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there’s a distinct difference, it’s interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and there is one more, they have no compassion or empathy for other people.

Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one’s group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill. Who cares if millions of mice and rats are vivisected? They’re ‘only rodents’. What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear? They’re ‘just chickens’. They aren’t human, so they don’t count. Victimizers lack empathy for their victims, but absence of empathy doesn’t justify victimization, whether the victims are human or nonhuman.

I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I’m a strange a looking creature.

I’m a citizen of the republic of empathy.

We are hardwired to connect with others, it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.

Self-compassion is key because when we’re able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we’re more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.

Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.