1,354 Quotes About Empathy

There comes a time when everyone should seriously empathise.Wikipedia defines empathy as “the capacity to recognise feelings that are being experienced by another sentient or semi-sentient being”. Empathy is a prerequisite for experiencing compassion, and compassion is precisely what this world is most in need of. It's the crucial emotion required to help free the world from the thralls of depravity in which it finds itself ensnared

I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.

You need to forgive people you don't understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive.

I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all.

Добро предаване и разбиране на емоционални съдържания в процеса на общуване предпоставя възникване на емпатия - способност за съпреживяване. При такъв вид взаимоотношения има тенденция към разчупване на стереотипизирането на другия, към отпадане на възприемането му през някакви предсъздадени и необективни схеми.

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.

Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy, which led to guilt, as well as suffering.She looked at Gavin, supine, unconcerned, contented, and thought that perhaps there was something to being a sociopath. If you didn't have a heart, it couldn't be broken.

I'm too intense. I feel too much. And when I experience certain sensations, I act. Even if the situation is one I should probably walk away from. But you know what?" She was feeling a little better. "I'm never going to walk away, not from any of it. I can't. I am what I am. I'm intense, just as my fiance said. I feel everything around me, and I'm glad about that. I can't imagine life without the depth, without the magic that accompanies the pain.

That's what war is," Cobb told me. "A bunch of sorry, desperate fools on both sides, just trying to stay alive. That's the part that those stories you love leave out, isn't it? It's always more convenient when you can fight a dragon. Something you don't have to worry you'll start caring about.