Quotes About Empathy

There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

My fans truly are a part of me, we share something that most people will never experience.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change.

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people's. (Are we all under this illusion?)

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.