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• As authors, most – most authors , our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it’s like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Empathy, Portraying

• To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

  Stephen R. Covey

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Empathy, Compassion, Connections

• 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

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• Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  Barbara Kingsolver

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  Tags in Fiction, Empathy

• Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

  Barbara Kingsolver

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  Tags in Fiction, Empathy

• I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on ‘Top Chef,’ whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It’s a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Empathy, Finish

• I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they’ve done.

  Andrea Arnold

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  Tags in Empathy, Detail

• As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

  Hugh Jackman

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  Tags in Empathy, Both

• He’s really sort of the devil. He’s completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It’s about power with Voldemort. It’s an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Empathy, Psycho

• Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

  Alice Miller

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Empathy, Learning, Listening

• So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Empathy, Listening

• We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

  Barack Obama

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  Tags in Empathy, Recognize, Gay, Somebody, Judges

• The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

  Oprah Winfrey

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  Tags in Empathy, Pain, Struggle

• Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

  Jonathan Swift

  Topics in Expectations, Power

  Tags in Empathy, Material Possessions, Poverty

• One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

  Moliere

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Empathy, Hypocrisy

• Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

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  Tags in Empathy, Acceptance, Silence

• Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Anger, Truth

  Tags in Empathy, Enemies, Tolerance, Understanding

• Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we’ll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.

  Marshall Rosenberg

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  Tags in Empathy, Enemies, Understanding

• Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

  Henry David Thoreau

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  Tags in Empathy, Understanding

• The capacity to give one’s attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

  Simone Weil

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Empathy, Attention