Empathy Quotes - Page 4

Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is for me terribly important in a relationship. It is important for me to provide it; it has been extremely important, especially at certain times in my life, to receive it. I feel that I have grown within myself when I have provided it; I am very sure that I have grown and been released and enhanced when I have received this kind of listening.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

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.

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.

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

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions.

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

In the beginning was the relationship.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.