Empathy Quotes - Page 39

• I had horrible acne when I was a kid. I felt like a complete and utter ne'er do well and someone who didn't fit in and wasn't handsome. So, I understand implicitly, and with a great amount of empathy, a man or human being that feels that way.

  Chris Pine

  Kids, Men, Acne

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• Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Desire, Needs

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.203, New World Library

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• It's a time when a lot of principle virtues are being tested. Do we still believe in the truth? Do we still believe in empathy? Do we still believe the protection of the weakest among us? These are yes or no questions, but the means of communication is all tied up with those virtues and you can't abandon those virtues as you pursue them.

  George Saunders

  Believe, Communication, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That's actually where it all comes from.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Feelings, Lines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

  Hilary Mantel

  Perfect, Imagination, Mind

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Having pets can teach us a lot of things. For kids, they are often their first lesson in responsibility, and being responsible for the well-being of another living thing is actually great for anyone, kid or adult. It teaches empathy, consistency, and so much more - especially if that pet is a dog.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Kids, Responsibility

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

  Mary Robinson

  Suffering Of Others, People, Suffering

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for the sufferings of others.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Suffering Of Others, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like my judgmentalism; I didn't like my absolutism. I didn't like my repression of natural empathy, my pinched lack of emotional generosity. How I had been thinking politically had less to do with what was wrong with the world and more to do with what was wrong with me, with my fears and insecurities, failings, weaknesses.

  Steve Erickson

  Emotional, Thinking, Generosity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If a character is honest with a reader, then (hopefully) that will engage the reader's empathy centers; she'll meet that openness with acceptance, and they'll forge a nourishing and meaningful bond as the book continues.

  Joshua Mohr

  Meaningful, Book, Character

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• We often think that "bad" relationships are motivating by self-loathing or a wish for self-destruction, but I think that loving people who hurt us is more tied to a profound and earnest wish to soothe ourselves and recover from older hurts. And I've also found that having empathy for that urge is the best way to move through it, and beyond it.

  Melissa Febos

  Hurt, Moving, Bad Relationship

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has not read a book, as an adult. This is not someone who sits down in the evening to consider the latest bestseller, let alone Tolstoy - but who is very very active on this medium that requires no discipline and no attention and no empathy. It is all about retweeting praise of oneself or very quickly or poorly considered, ill-typed, misspelled diatribes against other people.

  Ben H. Winters

  Book, Thinking, Discipline

  Source: www.slate.com

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• We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female template for relations early on. They then automatically apply it to other differences, whether based on race, religion, sexual orientation, and so forth.

  Riane Eisler

  Children, Growing Up, Race

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The great leaders that I have worked with are people who have a good sense of empathy with other people. They can walk a factory floor, or walk through a battalion and smell if there's something wrong.

  Colin Powell

  Smell, People, Leader

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I really, really do believe that the future of being successful in work is going to be about embracing all of those wonderful things women bring - empathy, collaboration, flexibility - all those wonderful feminine traits we've suppressed for too long.

  Mary Portas

  Believe, Successful, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• What we were most hoping to achieve with Shots Fired: empathy for all of the characters and conversations about our criminal justice system, which is broken on every level, from the street all the way up to the highest level of government.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  Character, Government, Broken

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• What goes on in the world and who's defining what is right or wrong in anything? Is there a place in any of our existence where we need judgment any longer? But we should have empathy towards each other and break away from those categories that politics and religion keep throwing back at us.

  John Lydon

  Should Have, Goes On, World

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different. I'm an advocate of an approach that endeavors to foster empathy and which tries to find a common humanity across the divide.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Fashion, Thinking, Common Humanity

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil acts reduce the other to an object, a being to its component parts, and obliterate subjectivity. Evil's breeding ground is a lack of empathy.

  C.E. Morgan

  Thinking, Expression, Opposites

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.

  C.E. Morgan

  Pain, Revenge, Struggle

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I flattered myself that I was rather empathetic, that I had rather good imaginative empathy. I've realized now that that was a complete self-delusion and that I didn't really have any comprehension of what it was like to see your entire life go catastrophically wrong in a matter of moments.

  Decca Aitkenhead

  Self, Matter, Moments

  "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.

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• I want the audience, when they leave, to think of the characters on the stage in three dimensions. I want them to have empathy. I also want them to think about engaging more with where we are culturally.

  Lynn Nottage

  Character, Thinking, Dimensions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was an age in which it was clear to me that my parents weren't perfect, but then there was an age at which I had empathy for that. And that was through therapy, probably. You have to rebuild and you also have to grow in your understanding of whatever it is your parents are facing, and that takes a major, profound shift of perspective from being a child.

  Ira Sachs

  Children, Profound, Perfect

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are many qualities of a great leader. Passion is one, empathy is another, listening is another, decisiveness is another. I think a great leader makes people feel comfortable, so that they feel that they're allowed to be stupid, they're not afraid to give their opinions.

  Sherry Lansing

  Stupid, Passion, Thinking

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• I don't agree with most forms of censorship, and I especially don't agree with the idea that one needs to be from the same cultural, ethnic, or religious background as the subjects they portray in order to be qualified to portray those subjects. I believe that compassion and empathy should cross all of those category barriers, and the conversations art creates can be inflammatory initially, but I think are most often constructive and healing in the long run.

  Shepard Fairey

  Running, Religious, Art

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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