Empathy Quotes And Sayings

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“I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
– Marcus Aurelius

“How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.”
– Margaret Atwood

“As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.”
– Martha Nussbaum

“There is no small act of kindness.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

“Every compassionate act makes large the world.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

“Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal position, or was I going to woman up? I went into fetal position on the bed to think about this. Fetal position turned out to be very comfortable.”
– Maureen Johnson

“The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.”
– Mehmet Oz 

“Maybe this is kind of cliche, but animals, well, dogs, are what I do for a living. One reason I spending time with them so much is they seem to think people are really good. They live with us, and obey our rules, most of which make no sense to them. And the main reason they do it is because they us. When I watch them, sometimes I’m so blow away by how enthusiastic they are about everything we do that I have to go out and buy them something squeaky or chewy. Just because I love proving to them that it’s not a mistake to see the world as a great benevolent place. I hope one day to react to something with as much pure ecstasy as I see in Chuck’s face every time I throw the ball. Sometimes he looks so happy, it reminds me of the way blind people smile way too big because they can’t see themselves. And if none of this links to anything in you, well… I think you don’t know who I am.”
– Merrill Markoe

“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.”
– Meryl Streep

“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
– Meryl Streep 

“Although I’m not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.”
– Mia Wasikowska 

“Do you know what it is?’ [Toby] said thoughtfully. ‘It’s that they haven’t had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder they seem so superficial and unfeeling.’
– Michelle Cooper

“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 

“All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?”
– Milan Kundera

“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
– Milan Kundera

“I don’t mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn’t criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it’s a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.”
– Natalie Portman 

“When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were “supposed” to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband’s testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.”
– Nicholas D. Kristof 

“The misery of other people is only an abstraction [...] something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one’s own experiences. But as it stands, true empathy remains impossible. And so long as it is, people will continue to suffer the pressure of their seemingly singular existence.”
– Nicole Krauss

“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”
– Nora Roberts

“The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.”
– Oprah Winfrey 

“I think it’s impossible to really know someone, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
– Orson Scott Card

“I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on ‘Top Chef,’ whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It’s a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.”
– Padma Lakshmi 

“It’s the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else’s pain.”
– Pat Barker

“I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they’re beautiful and famous and rich. I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I’d be dead.’”
– Philip Seymour Hoffman 

“Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.”
– Publius Terence

“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 

“I could really use someone else’s smile today.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry for. There were plenty of kids I was envious of. There were others I achingly admired, but that might simply be another form of jealousy. Then there were those I I guess I did know someone I felt sorry for.” feared, dreaded. And the worst of them, the man who shamed me. I could see my father’s angry features looming over my mother. I could clearly picture her beside him in his truck, cowering against the door while he belittled and assaulted her.
– Richelle E. Goodrich

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