Best empathy & enough Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

“However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.”

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“This enthusiasm [for empathy] may be misplaced. Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate. We’re often at our best when we’re smart enough not to rely on it.”

May Enough Smart Empathy Enthusiasm Features Rely Unfortunate Narrow-minded Misplaced

Author:Paul Bloom

“The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himselfin her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant's feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.”

Ifs Children Enough Feelings Might Faces Mother Worry Failing Anxiety Empathy Concern Mirrors Good Enough Infant Not Good Enough Owing Doing Right

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.”

People Ifs Knows Want Believe Doe Enough Facts Helping Care Action Choices Belief Information Empathy Don't Care Admire

Author:Seth Godin

“I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is that you're really trained to listen and to be open and have empathy. It's such a natural consequence that you end up being more political. You can empathize with the mother whose kids are going to be sent to Iraq, or you can emphasize with the mother who is losing their child to a disease. How could you not then be active? So you're automatically drawn to that aspect in the rest of your life.”

Children Real Ends Enough Happens Kids Remember Political Mother Actors Natural Interesting Disease Losing Empathy Consequence Aspect Iraq Active Rest Of Your Life Natural Consequences

Author:Susan Sarandon

“I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much on Earth, too much suffering. The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.”

Feels Enough Earth Suffering Loss Too Much Rights Share Empathy Tough Free Will

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“Loss makes me feel vulnerable. I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much on Earth, too much suffering. The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.”

Enough Earth Suffering Loss Share Empathy Tough Vulnerable Free Will

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.”

People Way Trying Matter Enough Action Hope Compassion Courage Imagine Activity Empathy Bravery Willpower Human Experience Doings Muster Do Unto Others

Author:Cornel West

“A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.”

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion.”

Knows Men Wells Heart Children Enough Lying Known Honest Emotional Empathy Lays Chests Suspicion Honest Man Sean Heart Beating Lie To Me

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough in the process, we can always ask, "Is there more that you wanted to say"?”

Ifs Persons Long Enough Wanted Asks Process Talking Empathy Obvious Uncertain

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.”

People Feels Enough Pain Benefits Empathy Clusters

Book:I Can Make You Hate

Source: I Can Make You Hate

“The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.”

Knows Enough Age Empathy Valuable Currency Accuracy

Book:The Lost Art of Mixing

Source: The Lost Art of Mixing

“I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you're somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That's empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it.”

Thinking Knows Writing Looks Kind Enough Happens Able Faces Guy Situation Moral Empathy Stations Bus Heroism

Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.”

Thinking May Enough Courage Empathy Generosity Display

Author:Maya Angelou

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