1,354 Quotes About Empathy

I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess’s room.The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone.It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right.I feel like Bud Fox walking into his office with the Securities and Exchange Commission awaiting him.

Waterfalls of KindnessYou say I love too muchBut I say you love too littleIn a world where you can Give and liveI drip in kindnessAnd watch it trickleBecause sometimes The most important wordsAre the ones we cannot hear

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

There's something in everyone only they know.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.

A person who is empathic brings hopes to others but a person who works to alleviate other's suffering brings hope to the whole of humanity...