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Empathy Quotes

“Yes, your words matter and how you communicate with your clients can be the key to a successful future. Use empathy, thoughtfulness and kindness in your business interactions and think before you speak.”

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Book:The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital
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“Compassion, kindness, empathy, sympathy, mercy, and understanding are six connected values that ‎should be implanted in the young generation, as they are what motivates people to help and stand ‎for each other. A heart that is filled with mercifulness is a heart that will help its society and the whole ‎world to continue, improve, and thrive.‎”

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Author:Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi
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“The other day, someone visited me and asked, 'I wish to practice zazen under your guidance. But because I live far away, I can’t come to Antaiji very often. I’d like to practice zazen at home. What should I keep in mind to avoid doing zazen in a mistaken way?' I responded, 'If your wife and children say, "Daddy has become nicer since he began to do zazen," then your practice is on the right track.' Roshi, Kosho Uchiyama. Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo (Kindle Locations 2519-2523). Wisdom Publications. Kindle Edition.”

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Book:Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
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“Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those who had this wariness were more likely to survive to reproduce. It was just safer to assume danger- and expect the worst- than to count on the kindness of strangers.”

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Book:Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered
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“When you are only able to fight for another person when they share your own lifestyle, your own religion, your own beliefs, or your own gender; that is not fighting for "another person" or for "other people" at all. That is fighting for YOUR OWN IDEALS, YOUR OWN PERSON, and WHAT YOU WANT! Empathy is not empathy when it is only applied to what benefits yourself, your circle, and your beliefs. Empathy is NOT empathy until it reaches beyond your own personal limitations and your own personal interests!”

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Author:C. JoyBell C.
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“We all know people who are smart. But that doesn’t mean they are wise. Understanding and wisdom come from surviving the pitfalls of life, thriving in life, having wide and deep contact with other people. Out of your own moments of suffering, struggle, friendship, intimacy, and joy comes a compassionate awareness of how other people feel—their frailty, their confusion, and their courage. The wise are those who have lived full, varied lives, and reflected deeply on what they’ve been through.”

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Book:How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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“And if you've somehow managed to survive this far, now is the time to step things up and try to start caring: about a cat wailing in the yard, a baby wailing on the neighbor's balcony, a homeless guy wailing on the sidewalk across the street. I know, it's not easy. Surviving is intuitive: a bear chases you, you run. But caring? That's for advanced players. Breaking up a fight between two strangers on the street. Giving the salami sandwich you packed for lunch to a hungry-looking guy with holes in his shirt. Remembering that salami is actually thick slices of a cow that didn't ask to die. Understanding that you're part of something bigger, part of a giant, bloodied human wound. That this disease called caring is incurable and always will be.”

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Book:Autocorrect: Stories
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“Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder
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“Empathy teaches this lesson; it is one of the feelings we are put on Earth to learn, a key aspect of our preparation for immortality. It is difficult lesson in that we must experience it not only in our mind but in our physical bodies, and in the mind and body we have pain, dark emotions, difficult relationships, enemies, loss and grief. We thus tend to forget others and concentrate on ourselves. But we also have love, beauty, music, art, dance, nature, and air, and we long to share them. We cannot transform negativity into the positive without empathy, and we cannot truly understand empathy without experiencing it in our present life, in our past, and in our future.”

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Book:Same Soul, Many Bodies: Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy
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“When we say to someone, "Oh you're behaving like an animal," it's actually a compliment rather than an insult. We need to work for a science of peace and build a culture of empathy, and emphasize the positive, pro-social side of the character of other animals and ourselves. It's truly who we and other animals are.”

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Book:Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation
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“Positivity can be a negative," I tell her, "if it's used to diminish events that should be cause for concern. Saying 'bad things happen to good people' or "God doesn't give anyone more than they can handle', for instance, isn't necessarily helpful to the person to whom something bad happened--it is much more beneficial to those who wish to be dismissive- who don't really care to think about the why or how or who. And if we cease to see the real human part in events--if instead, we relegate human experiences to some sort of mystical concept like karma, destiny or everything happens for a reason, and consider more realistic views to be negative--then we diminish compassion and empathy, as well as the possibility of positive change.”

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Book:Elephant Girl: A Human Story
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“The Practice of Staying Sometime this week, choose one conversation you have been avoiding or managing carefully because it feels charged, tender, or unresolved. Before you enter it, pause. Take three slow breaths. Say quietly to yourself: “I am here to stay in relationship, not to win.” During the conversation, practice one simple discipline: Do not interrupt. Do not correct. Do not prepare your reply while the other person is speaking. Listen long enough to be changed. You do not need to resolve anything. You do not need to persuade anyone. Your only commitment is presence. Afterward, notice what shifted inside you. Not what you achieved, but what you encountered. That is the field where wisdom grows.”

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Author:Cameron Trimble
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“That was the thing about her. When you told her about an incident where you so badly screwed up, half expecting her to laugh at you in amusement, half anticipating a smirk of disgust, she would hardly express her pity or maybe she did express what she felt, for she would just nod her head, gesturing you to go on... As if it's normal... As if you're normal.”

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Author:Sanhita Baruah
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“We are born with the innate capacity to express empathy. Experiencing our own cuts and bruises, encountering our own difficulties and disappointments, expands our cognitive world and rouses the universal desire to understand and comfort other people in pain.”

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“She says, enough, enough, just enough. It's too much already, I've never-- thank God-- had a problem with any of my children, but now all of a sudden it's like you are three different people and I don't ever know which one I'm going to get. It's exhausting, you hear me, you are exhausting me. Can we not just have some real, genuine peace in this house? Between you and your father everyone here is always walking around like someone has died or is about to die. Or people are shouting or sulking or whatever it is you men do. You see my hair. You people are making me old! For once can someone not fucking shout at me for something, I say, I can't wait until I'm out of this stupid fucking place and no one can yell at me. My mother's mouth falls open and her eyes lock on my face. She has heard me swear before. on the phone when joking with some friends but never have I said any such thing to either one of my parents. Never. I have always assumed that such an event would result in my being beaten within an inch of my unborn grandchild's life, but she just stands there like a malfunctioning robot. Is anyone keeping you here, she says finally. If you are unhappy, please go. Go and find the place where you feel happy. I'm sorry, I say, but it's too late. I've fucked up. The less I've said the better things have been, the less likely my father has seemed ready to pounce on me for the smallest mistake. If she tells him what has happened, this might be the end. I'm really sorry. My hands smell of cucumber as I wipe my nose. She tosses the vegetable peeler in her hand to the counter between us. Its protected blades glint in the sunlight streaming through the large bay windows. Do what you like, she says. Mommy, wait please, I say. Get out of here, I don't want to talk to you. Not like this, in my house, my mother says. Her voice is flat and hard, her eyes fixed directly to mine. Ypu should go and find whatever it is you want to find. Me, sef, I'm tired, I'm going upstairs, she says. I listen to her reach the top stair, enter her bedroom, and shut the door. It's just me now.”

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Book:Speak No Evil
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“[...] Poți parcurge o viață întreagă și să nu înțelegi mai nimic despre cum funcționează oamenii și emoțiile. << [...] Avem nevoie să înțelegem emoțiile, fiindcă neînțelegându-le, ne facem rău și nouă și îi rănim și pe alții. Uită-te în jurul tău și vei înțelege ușor ceea ce Austin Kleon a zis mai bine decât eu aș putea spune vreodată: "Atunci când oamenii dau sfaturi de fapt ceea ce fac e să-și vorbească lor, cei din trecut." [...] Dacă ar fi să rezum și să simplific lucruri care, în esență, sunt nesimplificabile, aș spune că atunci când oamenii se deschid în fața noastră și încearcă să creeze o conexiune cu noi, să îi ascultăm contează mai mult decât a încerca să îi ajutăm. De fapt, pentru mulți dintre noi, a ne înfrâna reflexul de a încerca să îi ajutăm prin cuvinte poate să le facă mult mai bine decât am putea crede vreodată. Dacă am învățat ceva în miile de ore de lucrat cu oamenii, am învățat că suntem, ca specie, mult mai plini de resurse decât credem. Avem o capacitate incredibilă de a ne vindeca, de a ne rezolva problemele și de a gestiona perioadele grele. Iar atunci când nu suntem antrenați în a-i ajuta pe alții (sau chiar atunci când suntem), cel mai bun lucru pe care îl putem face pentru ei este să le dăm spațiu să vorbească, să îi ascultăm fără să îi facem să se simtă judecați, etichetați, fără să îi întrerupem cu părerile noastre despre viețile lor. Și, cel mult, să le comunicăm că i-am ascultat.”

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Book:Acum, aici, contezi
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