1,354 Quotes About Empathy

One of the peculiar children's perspective out of time allows him to take minute interest in every resident of the town and to chronicle everything we did for the entire day he lives over and over.

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

I feel therefore I am.

I smile, I am compassionate,I am strong,I am empathetic,I am emotional.If you think being emotional is my Weakness in this Selfish world,Then I Believe I'm the Strongest of allAs I Help people when they Fall.

The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.

If any language were to be understood, one would have to understand first the unutterable sound of silence in the human soul through empathy and compassion, for there is more to the silence of individual heart and mind than what has been tangibly spoken or acted out between people. (— Danny Castillones Sillada, The Unspoken Infinities of Silence)

Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.

Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia - em (into) and pathos (feeling) - a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person's pain as you'd enter another country, through immigration and customs, border crossing by way of query: What grows where you are? What are the laws? What animals graze there?

One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day.