Empathy Quotes
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Empathy for women is an attribute of masculinity. When men play the protector role they are trying to save a woman from grief or pain. If they had no glimpse of her grief or pain, they wouldn’t know when to protect.
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Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.
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It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.
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Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face.
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I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.
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Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.
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Tony Blair has made a good contribution to the cause of peace in Ireland. He has made a great effort to understand it. He has great empathy with the need to resolve the conflict.
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Any effective treatment—effective beyond placebo that is—will generate a specific effect plus a placebo effect, provided that clinicians administer it with sufficient time, dedication, compassion and empathy.
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That's where peace begins - not just in the plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people. Not just in some carefully designed process, but in the daily connections - that sense of empathy that takes place among those who live together in this land and in this sacred city of Jerusalem.
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Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.
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True contentment comes with empathy.
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Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
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As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around.
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I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.
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Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
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With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.
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I have such a crush on Tony Robbins and his passion, empathy, and sheer talent.
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As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which we can find differences to fight wars over. It requires a great deal of empathy, I think, between various sides to overcome this history and live in peace.
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We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.
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Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.
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I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.
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Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.
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If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.
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Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love.
