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• The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right tools for building a global civilization of peace and prosperity.

  Paul K. Chappell

  Communication, Civilization, Community

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• Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

  Jonathan Haidt

  Moral, Righteousness, Difficult

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.49, Vintage

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• Find that thing you are super passionate about. A lot of founding principles of Facebook are that if people have access to more information and are more connected, it will make the world better; people will have more understanding, more empathy. That’s the guiding principle for me. On hard days, I really just step back, and that’s the thing that keeps me going.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Guiding Principles, People, Understanding

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• Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

  Nora Roberts

  Feelings, Too Much, Emotion

  Nora Roberts (2002). “Midnight Bayou”, p.120, Penguin

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• Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition. Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.

  Azar Nafisi

  Fate, Shoes, Imagination

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• 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.

  Azar Nafisi

  Pain, Lying, Heart

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.132, Random House

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• I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

  Azar Nafisi

  Teacher, Believe, Eye

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• I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an Iraqi prisoner, becomes real to me and not just passing news. And it is at times like this when I ask myself, am I prepared - like Huck Finn - to give up Sunday school heaven for the kind of hell that Huck chose?

  Azar Nafisi

  Children, Giving Up, Pain

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• I'm determined to disagree with people without being disagreeable. That's part of the empathy. Empathy doesn't just extend to cute little kids. You have to have empathy when you're talking to some guy who doesn't like black people.

  Barack Obama

  Cute, Kids, Talking

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• What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you

  Barack Obama

  Shoes, People, Inability

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• We need empathy to give empathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Needs

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• In empathy, you don't speak at all. You speak with the eyes. You speak with your body. If you say any words at all, it's because you are not sure you are with the person. So you may say some words. But the words are not empathy. Empathy is when the other person feels the connection with what's alive in you.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Eye, Connections, Alive

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• Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Block, Understanding, Intellectual

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• We need to receive empathy to give empathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Needs

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• Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Lying, Opinion, Ability

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• Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Giving, Enjoy

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• The more we empathize with the other party, the safer we feel.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Party, Feels

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• The number one rule of our training is empathy before education.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Numbers, Training

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• It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  May, Difficult, Closest

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• Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Protect

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

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Moving, Our World, Way

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• With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  "Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise".

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• With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Direct

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• It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Resources, Harder

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• Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Goal, Quality, Connections

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.39, PuddleDancer Press

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