Empathy Quotes - Page 17

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

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.

Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.

I went to the archives to see what Dumbo work there was, not for current film, but just for my love of animation. And I couldn't believe all the artwork the guys had done to find this universal empathy to Dumbo. There was one drawing where they used his ears as a sign: "Eat at Joes!" These guys were continually searching and digging to see what that is.

The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

There is no small act of kindness.

The number one rule of our training is empathy before education.

Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.

We need empathy to give empathy.

Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

Translate all self-judgments into self-empathy.

NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

Remember that for someone to be so mean, something must be going on with them. Something must be happening to make them so unhappy that they feel the need to bring others down. I try to have empathy for them.

We miss extra bits of knowledge that can add value to our lives. We sort of lack empathy because we're multitasking all the time.

One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.

Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you're somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That's empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it.

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of sympathy, empathy, reciprocity, a willingness to follow social rules. Dogs are a good example of a species that have and obey social rules; that's why we like them so much, even though they're large carnivores.

During empathy one is simply 'there for' the other individual, when experiencing their own feelings while listening to the other, i.e. during sympathy, the listener pays attention to something about themselves, and is not 'there for' the client. Consider how you would feel if you sensed that the individual listening to you was getting into their own 'stuff' rather than hearing and reflecting exactly what you were feeling in a moment of need?

Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.