Quotes About Empathy

It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

Instead of putting people in boxes, we need to stop and listen to their stories.

Grandma laughed. "You'd be surprised. It's awfully hard to dislike someone when you really pray for them. In fact the person you pray for could turn out to be one of your best friends.

An empathy wall is an obstacle to deep understanding of another person, one that can make us feel indifferent or even hostile to those who hold different beliefs or whose childhood is rooted in different circumstances.

The right seeks release from liberal notions of what they should feel—happy for the gay newlywed, sad at the plight of the Syrian refugee, unresentful about paying taxes. The left sees prejudice.

Our polarization, and the increasing reality that we simply don't know each other, makes it too easy to settle for dislike and contempt.

We, on both sides, wrongly imagine that empathy with the "other" side brings an end to clearheaded analysis when, in truth, it's on the other side of that bridge that the most important analysis can begin.

The Righteous Mind, for example, Jonathan Haidt

An empathy wall is an obstacle to deep understanding of another person, one that can make us feel indifferent or even hostile to those who hold different beliefs or whose childhood is rooted in different circumstances. In a period of political tumult, we grasp for quick certainties. We

the more that people confine themselves to likeminded company, the more extreme their views become.

At play are "feeling rules," left ones and right ones. The right seeks release from liberal notions of what they should feel—happy for the gay newlywed, sad at the plight of the Syrian refugee, unresentful about paying taxes. The left sees prejudice.

The English language doesn't give us many words to describe the feeling of reaching out to someone from another world, and of hav- ing that interest welcomed. Something of its own kind, mutual, is created. What a gift.

An empathy wall is an obstacle to deep understanding of another person, one that can make us feel indifferent or even hostile to those who hold different beliefs or whose childhood is rooted in different circumstances. In

Disseram que eu fora insensível; que manifestara um sentimento muito próximo da indiferença e do desdém. Ah!, como as pessoas não entendem nada das pessoas.

Carry your baby more. The more you hold him (even when he's not crying), the less likely he is to cry. In one study, researchers found that a two-hour increase in carrying time per day resulted in a 42 percent decrease in crying

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

My life is full of love; I designed it that way. I try to make my own experience about love and I look for kindness in others. That's the thing I value the most: it will get you through everything.

I don't see myself very clearly. Then look at the people who love you...Look into their eyes and see what they're seeing; that's all you need to know yourself.

Don Juan tells Castaneda that if you live by the Ego, then you can count on being offended or defensive for the rest of your life.

A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.

Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.