Empathy Quotes - Page 40

• All people share the same desire to be treated equally. We all go through similar emotional journeys from love to hate, rejection to acceptance. I think the most important thing for dance right now is to allow for more empathy and understanding between people of different races and socioeconomic statuses. In our society we need to build bridges.

  Dana Tai Soon Burgess

  Hate, Acceptance, Journey

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What we're trying to do in conversational intelligence is not only define that trust continuum for people, not only helping them notice, which is so important, what's happening in them and others when distrust lives, but also how to bring people in trust. When they do, what happens, this part of our brain, the prefrontal cortex is loaded with wisdom, integrity, strategy, insights, empathy, foresight. It's beautiful. It's so designed for that, and often it's turned off because people don't have trust with each other.

  Judith E. Glaser

  Beautiful, Integrity, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

  William J. Clinton

  Gun, Rights, Government

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.223, Best Books on

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• When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

  Jared Sparks

  Life, Motivational, Understanding

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• There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

  Juan Montalvo

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Justice

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• International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

  J. William Fulbright

  Education, Wisdom, Peace

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• The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

  J. William Fulbright

  Sympathy, Education, Hope

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• The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Communication, Men

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• Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

  Salma Hayek

  Beautiful, Mother, Natural Instinct

  "Salma Hayek Is the Coolest Mom on the Planet". Interview with Sheri Reed, thestir.cafemom.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

  Nhá̂t Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh, Anh Huong Nguyen (1992). “The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion: Commentaries on the Prajñaparamita Diamond Sutra”, Parallax Pr

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• Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

  George Saunders

  Feelings, Guilt, Shame

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• The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

  Simone Weil

  Sympathy, Thinking, Compassion

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge

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• We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Moon

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Success, Trust, Sympathy

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.35, Basic Books

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• Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

  Frederic Chopin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Apathy

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• To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

  Hans Hofmann

  Emotion, Faculty, Plastic

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• It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

  John Philpot Curran

  Fate, Men, Rights

  Speech on the right of election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, 10 July 1790. Usually quoted as "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," which has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but no one has ever found this in his writings. Atkinson's Casket, Sept. 1833, has "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." See Andrew Jackson 5

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• We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

  Abraham Flexner

  Play, Liberty, Apathy

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• As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Freedom, Thinking, Government

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• Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Communication, Understanding

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

  Frans de Waal

  Love, Compassion, Generosity

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• Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Compassion, Expression, Challenges

  "Frances Moore Lappe on Creating an Ecology of Hope". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.truth-out.org. December 26, 2011.

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• Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Grief, Loss

  'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

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• Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

  Carl Rogers

  Men, Effective Listening, Inability

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• Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng -
  The cowed and the meek -
  Who see the world's great anguish and its
  wrong
  And dare not speak!

  Ralph Chaplin

  Honesty, Lying, Integrity

  "Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin". Book by Ralph Chaplin, 1922.

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