E Quotes
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“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.”
“Empathy cannot by definition oppress anyone.”
Source: The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
“Empathy, care, and compassion for neighbors are the most visible indicators that we believe in a caring God.”
Source: Collateral Damage: Changing the Conversation about Firearms and Faith
“Empathy comes from being empathized with.”
Source: Great Kids: Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the Ten Essential Qualities for a Healthy, Happy Life
“Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia - em (into) and pathos (feeling) - a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person's pain as you'd enter another country, through immigration and customs, border crossing by way of query: What grows where you are? What are the laws? What animals graze there?”
Source: The Empathy Exams
“Empathy connects us to another person’s experience without judgment.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“empathy does more to your conscience than a news report”
Source: Does My Head Look Big in This?
“Empathy doesn't need to hear words sympathy at times misleads.”
“Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.”
“Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.”
“Empathy enables us to connect deeply with those around us, fostering understanding, compassion, and cooperation.”
Source: Atlas of the Soul: Charting the Depths of Empathy and the Vocabulary of Human Connection
“Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider’s ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the part of his prey. Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as cats, would starve.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Empathy existed in our home long before we had a gas stove, a TV, a refrigerator, or other modern amenities.”
Source: Do More Good: Inspiring Lessons from Extraordinary People
“Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes.”
“Empathy for an enemy's pain was good, but you couldn't let that lead you into the fallacy of accepting their actions.”
Source: Defiant
“Empathy for the people you're working with and being aware of their needs...that's the "big kahuna" in managing people.”
“Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.”
Source: Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief
“Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.”
Source: The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter
“Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.”
“Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain.”
“Empathy greases the wheels of productivity.”
Source: Making Virtual Work: How to Build Performance and Relationships
“Empathy grows as we learn.”
Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“Empathy has become a misused buzz-word. It is transformed into a catch all term for everything good as a synonym of the morality, kindness and compassion. It is frequently mistaken for sympathy, which means aligning yourself with someone suffering, not inhabiting it.”
Source: How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
“Empathy heals shame; sympathy exacerbates shame. We don't want people to feel sorry for us; we want people to be with us.”
Source: Men, Women, and Worthiness: The Experience of Shame and the Power of Being Enough
“Empathy in broadest sense refers to the reactions of one individual to the observed experiences of another”
“Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.”
“Empathy is a big part of Sparkleponies, because it’s also my belief (as a history and political science major) that societies that don’t practice rational empathy inevitably collapse – either by fomenting conflict from within by oppressing a segment/s of their populace, or seeking conflict from without by taking from others and eventually getting into a fight they can’t win.”
“Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed.”
Source: #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
“Empathy is a common and even useful trait; but it can easily go to the extent of disabling the well-meaning helper. This is not to suggest that one attempt to become 'hardened;' rather... one might attempt to more clearly place the self within a total framework which allows one to say without guilt when he has had enough. The 'bleeding heart' who makes routine of this for everyone soon runs out of blood, even for himself. Each counselor must be careful to, first, accurately assess the needs and wishes of his own personal life before scheduling his time, thoughts, and emotions for other people."
Marco M. Pardi, "Death: An Anthropological Perspective" 1977 University Press of America”
Source: Death: An anthropological perspective
“Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul.”
“Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the way in which a progressive might claim that empathy is a crucial aspect of any benign political system, and the way a conservative might argue that not only is it not necessary, but it might not even be all that helpful, in that regard.”
“Empathy is a kind of care but it’s not the only kind of care, and it’s not always enough.”
Source: The Empathy Exams
“Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”
“Empathy is a quality today that we need more than ever. Throughout his life Jesus showed empathy and care for others on a level never seen before. From him we learn that Gods ways of service to others before obsession with self is the path he wants us to walk on and deep down we know it.”
Source: So, You Want to Be Rich... But Jesus Doesn't
“Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.”
“Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.”
“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.”
“Empathy is a superpower for doping your team’s engagement.”
Source: You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader
“Empathy is a 'technology' important on day to day. Use it with respect and attention.”
“Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“Empathy is a trembling fellow feeling, the shared moments that hold a beauteous pain and in its release is found a relatedness, an invisible family that bears an unbearable agony as a cluster of stars weep through the dark....”
“Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.”
“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.”
“Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.”
“Empathy is an act of the imagination that grows from a gut-twinge of sympathy, a notion that I would not like to feel what that poor other person is feeling. We override our own flinching instinct to ask what another person's suffering might feel like.”
Source: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
“Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide”
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct”
“Empathy is at the core of family stability and love. I've never had a couple come to me and say, I want a divorce; my partner understands me.”
“Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.”