1,354 Quotes About Empathy

We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

Indeed, insight is the true hallmark of empathy. The power of true empathy is its ability to give us a fresh understanding of the other person's emotions and thoughts to illuminate an aspect of their experience that would not have been apparent to us had we not stepped into their shoes.

Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we fall together in that moment of tenderest perception when we see and feel each other's wounds and know another's sorrow like a brother of our own.

Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.

When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

...the best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ...