1,354 Quotes About Empathy

The midpoint in medicine between excessive emotional involvement with patients and a complete lack of empathy is not a simple one to locate.

At first, as we undertake the cultivation of compassion, we may feel genuine empathy with others in pain or difficulty. This happens when we take the time to stop and feel what is really going on—even for just a few moments before rushing on with our lives.

If you knew what is was like to be another person, then how could you possibly do something which would cause pain? The problem, though, was that there seemed to be people in whom that imaginative part was just missing. It could be that they were born that way--with something missing from their brains--or it could be that they became like that because they were never taught by their parents to sympathise with others.

Hope becomes an option only when we get involved. Empathy must influence the nature of our interactions. And we must remember that compassion is contagious. The more we spread it, the more the people around us are gonna feel it and cherish it. And the more we see it elsewhere, the more it becomes attainable where we are.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Sometimes not giving a fuck is caring the most.

If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life.

Remember at all time that just as your life is precious to you, so too is all life precious to those living one.

If we could understand and love the infinity of agonies which languish around us, all the lives which are hidden deaths, we should require as many hearts as there are suffering beings.