1,354 Quotes About Empathy

You're a sympathetic sonofabitch, you know that?"."You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor.

The Difference Between Sympathy, Empathy and Compassion:If someone was stuck in a quagmire:Sympathy would be: sitting on the side, feeling sorry for them.Empathy would be: getting into the quagmire with them, and trying to find a way out for both of you.Compassion would be: keeping your own feet on solid ground and staying in a state of love while you reach out a hand or branch to help them to get out.

Empathy doesn't need to hear words sympathy at times misleads.

We live with an almost superstitious belief in our own differences, she said, and Luis has shown that those differences are not the result of some divine mystery but are merely the consequence of our lack of empathy, which if we had it would enable us to see that in fact we are all the same.

Apathy perishes us, while sympathy empowers us.

While a person can accept that seemingly impenetrable obstacles blocked other people’s path, each of us hurt in an exclusive manner, rendering us colorblind to the elongated bands of hard times that loom over other people’s promising zodiacs.

A child is not born with affection, adoration, and kindheartedness. A person accrues empathy and sympathy from experiencing our own pain.

empathy is more powerful than sympathy

If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.