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• Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Character

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• Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Men, Stripes, Culture

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• Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

  Frans de Waal

  Morality, Unthinkable, Humans

  "Science overturns view of humans as naturally 'nasty'". phys.org. February 20, 2012.

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• It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well, that what made her bleed caused a hemorrhage of pain within his soul.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Hurt, Pain, Soul

  Elizabeth Hoyt (2010). “Wicked Intentions: Number 1 in series”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a "right" to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our brain to move toward compassion and away from cruelty, to feel empathy rather than cold indifference, to feel animals' pain in our hearts.

  Marc Bekoff

  Pain, Powerful, Moving

  Marc Bekoff (2013). “Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation”, p.310, New World Library

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• Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Names, Curiosity

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• Empathy isn't as hard as it sounds because people have a lot of the same feelings. And it helps to understand other people because then you can actually care about them sometimes. And help them. And have a friend.

  Kathryn Erskine

  People, Feelings, Sound

  Kathryn Erskine (2018). “Mockingbird”, p.149, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.

  Deb Caletti

  Trying, Needs, Speak

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• Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Love, Song, Lonely

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

  Derrick Bell

  Enlightenment, Reform, Way

  Derrick A. Bell (1992). “Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism”, p.150, Basic Books

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• Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.

  Peter Singer

  Suffering, Emotion, Blind

  "Writings on an Ethical Life". Book by Peter Singer, November 21, 2000.

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• All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Heart, Cry, Otherness

  Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The White Witch”, p.427, Hachette UK

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• We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Pride, Compassion, Self

  Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The White Witch”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?

  Dennis Lehane

  Pain, Heart, Sleep

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• When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.

  Boyd Rice

  Perspective, Feelings, Ordinary

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• I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.

  Melina Marchetta

  Voice, Hysteria, Advice

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.177, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Mother, Husband, Pain

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• How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

  Margaret Atwood

  Humanity, Easy

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

  Martin Buber

  Redeemed

  Martin Buber (2013). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.64, Routledge

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• Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

  Stephen King

  Teenager, Later In Life, Delicate Life

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.

  Philip K. Dick

  Successful, Meat, Hunters

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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• Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Heart, Commitment, Compassion

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necessary with no regard to the damage it may do. I would be careful if I were you. Friends and objects of deities’ desires dropped like flies. In the end the gods always ended up miserable and alone." — Kate Daniels

  Ilona Andrews

  Mean, Giving, Ego

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.68, Penguin

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• I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Citizens, Republic

  Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts”, p.32, Granta Books

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• Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Fighting, Be Kind, Humans

  "Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270" by Sri Chinmoy, (#12871, Part 13), 1983.

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