1,354 Quotes About Empathy

Jon reeled, as Lex’s dark psyche began infecting him like an emotional contagion. As usual, the physical symptoms came first: his heart rate ramped up and caffeine jitters buzzed down to his fingertips. He knew how this dinner would go, and after traveling for twenty-six hours, he simply didn’t have it in him. Thankfully, he’d had a lifetime of practice bowing out of social situations.

If you desire to gaze out over wide vistas, you do well to climb up to a high spot. But if you wish to gaze into the human heart, you must climb down and look from a low place.

You agonise me by being so agonised.

If anyone was capable of understanding how someone else felt, it was Nancy. There weren't as many layers between her and the world as there were with the rest of us. She had that rare ability of being able to stand in someone else's shoes and get inside their skin.

Empathy may have burning effect but compassion has always a long-term fulfillment effect.

So, laugh with me, cry with me, but please don't tell me you know how I feel or you know what it's like because "it's the same" for you. How can it be? You have never lived in my head.

Non c'è niente di più pericoloso [...] che sottovalutare il proprio avversario, ignorare la sua logica e, tanto per negargli ogni singola ragione, definirlo un «pazzo».

Sometimes, we become so preoccupied with our own trials that we unwittingly reduce other people to the other. The other we interact with, come to enjoy the company of, perhaps even love, but the other nonetheless. We forget that they're people, too.

Children are constantly focused on their parents and will mirror them. Therefore, what they experience in the home will be crucial for their empathy development.Parents have a big responsibility because they are the primary example of empathy and must practice being empathic themselves.