Empathy Quotes - Page 16

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

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.

Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.

Other-oriented feelings congruent with the perceived welfare of another person.

The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.

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

Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it's due to a lack of rational empathy, of understanding that if you don't have equality in your society, the conflicts you breed (whether internally or externally) will eventually cause its collapse.

I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own - they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.

There's something in everyone only they know.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.

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

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

A sketch of a man facing to the right.