1,354 Quotes About Empathy

However, research with activists in the Civil Rights and antiwar movements of the 1950s and 1960s and of those who sheltered Holocaust survivors during World War II confirm that compassion, empathy, and social responsibility were core family values that motivated their actions. Once exercised in action, values of social responsibility and service to others may become integral to identity.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

Compassion is a seed, empathy is the root, kindness is the stem, charity is the tree, and love is the fruit.

Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.

Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.

Let's teach empathy by empathizing with our students.

Humility it`s not about thinking less of yourself, it`s about thinking about yourself less, having empathy, being humane and showing concern for the pain and suffering of others. That, is humility in the true sense.

How difficult is it for one body to feel the injustice wheeled at another? Are the tensions, the recognitions, the disappointments, and the failures that exploded in the riots too foreign?

I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.