A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain. – Daniel Goleman
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. – Roger Ebert
Empathy is like giving someone a psychological hug. – Lawrence J
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. – Mohsin Hamid
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. – H. Jackson Brown
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction ‘Love the neighbor as thyself.’ – George Mcgovern
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle. – Gary Bauer
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. – Tahereh Mafi
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions. – Gloria Steinem
When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him. – Euripides
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss. – Anderson Cooper
Empathy is the crucible of intercultural relations. – Carolyn Calloway-Thomas
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy. – Spider Robinson
The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. – Mehmet Oz
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act. – Eric Zorn
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. – Harper Lee
Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen enemy, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength. – R.A. Salvatore
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems. – Stephen Covey
Empathy is full presence to what’s alive in the other person at this moment. – John Cunningham
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. – Walt Whitman
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. – Neil Gaiman
Empathy means both understanding others on their own terms and bringing them within the orbit of one’s own experience. – Jacob A. Belzen
Empathy needs no genius. – Toba Beta
Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness. – Carl Rogers
Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person’s feelings and of one’s own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone. – Frans De Waal
Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them. – Katherine Ellison
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Empathy is the lovefire of sweet remembrance and shared understanding. – John Eaton
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe. – Homer
Empathy is putting yourself in another’s shoes to find out what exactly that person is feeling or going through at the given time. It basically refers to being at a common wavelength with someone. – Deepa Kodikal
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes. – Jack Handey
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Empathy depends not only on one’s ability to identify someone else’s emotions but also on one’s capacity to put oneself in the other person’s place and to experience an appropriate emotional response. – Charles G. Morris
If you share in a heart-felt sorrow, you can lighten the load of a friend. Sometimes facing the burden together can mend two broken hearts in the end. – Wes Fessler
Empathy means both understanding others on their own terms and bringing them within the orbit of one’s own experience. – Jacob A. Belzen
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own. – Henry Ford
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?. – Marcus Aurelius
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself. – John Steinbeck
Empathy is the only human superpower – it can shrink distance, cut through social and power hierarchies, transcend differences, and provoke political and social change. – Elizabeth Thomas
We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity. – Goldie Hawn
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. – Abraham Lincoln
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own. – Barbara Kingsolver
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. – Maya Angelou
I wouldn’t expect someone who’s been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain. – Marshall B. Rosenberg
The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person. – Carl Rogers
Empathy is a powerful behavior of nurturing. When it is given properly, the receiver can feel that the giver really cares about them, and that what they are going through is not trivial. – William E. Krill
I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy. – Zooey Deschanel
