Empathy Quotes - Page 4

• When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.

  Daniel Goleman

  Compassion, Needs, Attention

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• Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Listening, Suffering

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Positive, Wisdom

  'The Poet at the Breakfast Table' (1872) ch. 10

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• True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

  Andre Gide

  Kindness, Joy, Understanding

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.281, Routledge

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• The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

  Mehmet Oz

  Opposites, Calmness, Lack Of Empathy

  "Q&A with Mehmet Oz: Don’t Let the Finance Crisis Become a Health Crisis". Interview with Anthony Tjan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2007.

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  My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015

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• If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better - BOOM! Off the board. You're into the future. Empathy requires staying with the energy that's here right now. Not using any technique. Just being present. When I have really connected to this energy, it's like I wasn't there. I call this "watching the magic show". In this presence, a very precious energy works through us that can heal anything, and this relieves me from my "fix-it" tendencies.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Feel Better, Thinking, Magic

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• I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Beautiful, Powerful, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Art, Listening, Important

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• Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Learning, Heart

  Homer (2008). “The Odyssey: Easyread Large Edition”, p.146, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Two, People

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• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Live Life, Power, People

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• Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.

  Joe McMahon

  Love You, Love Is, Vanity

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• The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.

  Zhuangzi

  Understanding, Mind, Fasting

  "The Living Bread". Book by Thomas Merton, 1956.

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• Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.

  Zhuangzi

  Mind, Ears, Demand

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• Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

  Jen Knox

  Philosophy, Artist, People

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• I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

  John Shirley

  Way, Opinionated, Cursed

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• Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

  Stephen Covey

  Effectiveness, People, Efficiency

  Stephen R. Covey (2009). “Everyday Greatness: Inspiration for a Meaningful Life”, p.271, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, World

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• All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Love, Loneliness, Heart

  Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

  Daniel Goleman

  Smart, Emotional, Self

  "The Weeping, the Window, the Way: Will Suffering Make You Bitter Or Better?". Book by John O. Dozier, 2010.

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• I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

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• Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

  Michael Gove

  Sympathy, Children, Culture

  "Michael Gove proposes teaching foreign languages from age five" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• If I'm talking to someone in a crowded room, I try to make this person feel as though we're the only ones present. I shut out everything else. I look directly at the person. Even if a gorilla were to walk into the room, I probably wouldn't notice it.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Talking, Understanding, Listening

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.44, John Wiley & Sons

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