“A respectful understanding of another's experience.” UnderstandingEmpathyRespectful Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“Is there some meaning to this life? What purpose lies behind the strife? Whence do we come, where are we bound? These cold questions echo and resound through each day, each lonely night. We long to find the splendid light that will cast a revelatory beam upon the meaning of the human dream. Courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy lift us above the simple beasts and define humanity.” LoveHumansLongDreamLightLyingPurposeNightHumanitySimpleBehindsCompassionColdEmpathyLonelyBoundsCastsThis LifeLiftsBeastEach DayEchoesStrifeSplendidBeamFriendship LoveCourage To LoveCompassion And EmpathyLonely Nights Author:Dean Koontz
“In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.” SpiritualityUnderstandingKnowingCommunicationEmpathyTolerance Author:Ram Dass
“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.” IfsHeartTwoEndsSometimesTogetherFeltShareBrokenSorrowEmpathyBurdenLoadHeart Felt Author:Wes Fesler
“They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.” PeopleWorldGivingShouldChildrenProblemHomeCareSchoolSpiritSleepCitiesHalfStreetsGiving UpEmpathyWeakTake CareInnocentLazyTrappedInner CityJust Give Up Author:Barack Obama
“I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.” EmpathyConcernContractsYou Choose Author:Barack Obama
“I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.” WellsEasyFamilyCareersFamily LifeReconcileMarie Book:Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie Source: Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie
“One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.” PeopleFeelsEnoughPainBenefitsEmpathyClusters Book:I Can Make You Hate Source: I Can Make You Hate