Empathy Quotes - Page 36

• One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

  Charlie Brooker

  Pain, People, Benefits

  Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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• There is absolutely no single aspect of one's personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men typically are asked to excel. I believe empathy is not only the core of art, literature and music, but should also be at the core of society, from ethics to economics.

  Chris Ware

  Art, Believe, Men

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• The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Men, Mind, Quality

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• Empathy comes from being empathized with.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Stanley I Greenspan, Stanley Greenspan (2007). “Great Kids: Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the Ten Essential Qualities for a Healthy, Happy Life”, p.33, Da Capo Press

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• I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, People, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let is spur you to action. There are some people in the world that we can't help, but there are so many more that we can. So when you see a mother and her children suffering in another part of the world, don't look away. Look right at them. Let them break your heart, then let your empathy and your talents help you make a difference in the lives of others. Whether you volunteer every week or just a few times a year, your time and unique skills are invaluable.

  Melinda Gates

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.

  Arthur Koestler

  Real, Self, Opposites

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• Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating

  Mark Haddon

  Writing, Humdrum, Austen

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

  John Legend

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It:
  Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child;
  Forms the best foundation for later intellectual growth.
  Provides a way in which children get to know the world and creates possibilities for different ways of responding to it.
  Fosters empathy and wonder.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Emotional, Thinking

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• The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Brain, Suffering, Neuroscience

  "Is Compassion Meditation the Key to Better Caregiving?" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

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• Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Expression, Culture, Feminine

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• Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the millennium and today, investigating where we put our faith and why. The greatest of Roe's achievements in this captivating debut is a memorable feat of intense empathy. Roe inhabits characters who are desperate to believe and reveals to us their needs and wounds and hopes, and he does so with kindness, generosity, and wisdom. This is a novel about what it means to be human, to seek connection and hope and maybe even transcendence in the world around us.

  Doug Dorst

  Girl, Kindness, Believe

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• Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

  Charles de Lint

  Mind, Wizardry, Enchantment

  "Into the Green". Book by Charles de Lint, 1993.

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• I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason.

  Peter Hedges

  Compassion, Views, People

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• The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Passion, Temptation, Challenges

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• I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.

  Albert Einstein

  Appreciation, Mean, Views

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.89, Princeton University Press

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• I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.)

  Randall Jarrell

  Cutting, Artist, People

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 29), 1955.

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• We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...

  Randall Jarrell

  Waiting, Genius, Information

  "A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables" by Randall Jarrell, (p. 125), 1962.

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• Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Writing, Lessons, Kind

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• We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.74, Granta Books

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• A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Art, Imagination, Way

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.5, Granta Books

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• The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

  Thomas Sowell

  Law, Ideas, Justice

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.

  Thomas Sowell

  Struggle, Decision, Needs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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