1,354 Quotes About Empathy

People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( "Le ciel c'est l'autre" )

Until you truly let go, until you truly form humility, can you find empathy and in that empathy you find contact and in that contact you find out who you truly are, and who the people are around you.

I have been told, both in approval and in accusation, that I seem to love all my characters. What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart, and skin of a human being who is not myself. Whether this happens to be a man or a woman, old or young, with skin black or white, the primary challenge lies in making the jump itself. It is the act of a writer’s imagination that I set most high.

It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way

When we walk a mile in another's moccasins, we can sympathize in a way that one cannot with just a pure clinical perspective.

For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.

Money doesn't control me or my capability Escaping in my mind, I find divinity Directing my energy towards letting things be Acceptance and a willingness to understand Set me free The little things make me happy Sincerely yours, empathy and compassion

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.

If you were to imagine a life where you had very little power, did not have a voice and things happened to you, not with you - what would that feel like?