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• It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

  Lydia Millet

  Eye, Light, Sea

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.266, Soft Skull Press

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• The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

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• We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Compassion, Ideas, Needs

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, The Liberator Magazine, Volume 7.2, Issue 22, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

  John Connolly

  Reading, Thinking, Views

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Couple, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength- Drizzt Do'Urden

  R. A. Salvatore

  Heart, Cutting, Loss

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• I've always had a really developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination. And those are the cornerstones of activism.

  Susan Sarandon

  Children, Careers, Justice

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• To perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person, but without ever losing the "as if" condition. Thus, it means to sense the hurt or the pleasure of another as he senses it and to perceive the causes thereof as he perceives them, but without ever losing the recognition that it is as if I were hurt or pleased and so forth.

  Carl Rogers

  Hurt, Mean, Emotional

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.

  Carl Rogers

  Emotional, States, Accuracy

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.

  Carl Rogers

  Believe, People, Personality

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To do this, you can bring in nothing from the past. So the more psychology you've studied, the harder it will be to empathize. The more you know the person, the harder it will be to empathize. Diagnoses and past experiences can instantly knock you off the board. This doesn't mean denying the past. Past experiences can stimulate what's alive in this moment. But are you present to what was alive then or what the person is feeling and needing in this moment?

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Mean, Past, Psychology

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• I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Nature, Thinking, Differences

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• Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Epic Poems, Voice

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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  Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mirrors, Behaviour, Criminal Mind

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• Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

  Charles Kimball

  Tolerance, Source, Should

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• Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.

  Colin Powell

  People, Understanding, Followers

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, Thinking, World

  "Doom and glory of knowing who you are". "LIFE" Magazine, Vol. 54, No. 21, (p. 89), May 24, 1963.

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• I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sympathy, Land, Tears

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• If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

  Brené Brown

  Understanding, Stories, Shame

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.68, Penguin

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• Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fighting, Giving, Important

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• I wouldn't expect someone who's been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Listening, Depth

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• Become the world's most thoughtful friend.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Thoughtful, Understanding, Listening

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• I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.

  Tony Bennett

  Should Have, Understanding, Listening

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• The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

  Roger Ebert

  Civilization, People, Growth

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• He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Devil, Aphrodisiac, Alive

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