1,354 Quotes About Empathy

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Well, we know their staff, we have empathy for what they're going through, what they've gone through all season.

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.

If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

Empathy is the antidote to shame,

Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day.