Empathy Quotes - Page 10

• True contentment comes with empathy.

  Tim Finn

  Encouragement, Contentment, No Empathy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

  Karen Armstrong

  Sympathy, Unique, Compassion

  Karen Armstrong (2011). “Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life”, p.56, Random House

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• We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Change, Family

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• The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

  Martha Stout

  Sympathy, Fear, Compassion

  Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.107, Harmony

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• To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections

  Val Plumwood

  Relationship, Sympathy, Nature

  Val Plumwood (2005). “Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason”, p.9, Routledge

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• Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1916, Manonmani Publishers

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• ...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

  Heinz Kohut

  Sympathy, Men, Compassion

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• Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.

  Albert Einstein

  School, Eye, World

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• Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Literature, Influence

  "A life in writing" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

  Steven Pinker

  Self, Violence, Cooperation

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• Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

  Donald Margulies

  Thinking, Judging, Playwriting

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• We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

  Barack Obama

  Compassion, Goal, Principles

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• Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

  Jennifer Haigh

  Reading, Writing, Practice

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• Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

  Kafu Nagai

  Compassion, Principles, Artistic Creation

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• Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Character, Novel, Human Experience

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• Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

  Aberjhani

  Compassion, Humanity, Steps

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• Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes.

  William Arthur Ward

  Hurt, Prayer, Heart

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• There's a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest.

  Michael Nichols

  Differences, Listening, Bigs

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• Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 05, 2011

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

  Anderson Cooper

  Life, Loss, Experience

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

  Jesse Ventura

  Communication, Compliments You, Talking

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• If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Artist, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 01, 2017

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• Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

  Leslie Jamison

  Knowing, Knows

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